Re: [GENERAL] COL unique (CustomerID) plus COL unique (COUNT) inside CustomerID

2016-09-01 Thread Szymon Lipiński
Hi, you can use the UNIQUE constraint with two columns: UNIQUE(CustID, Count). regards, Szymon Lipiński On 1 September 2016 at 11:28, Michelle Konzack <linux4miche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello to all, > > after a period of silence from Debian, Courier, PHP and PostgreSQL I

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-21 Thread Szymon Lipiński
On 21 May 2016 at 11:28, Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Guyren Howe <guy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On May 20, 2016, at 13:38 , Pierre Chevalier Géologue < >> pierrechevalierg...@free.fr> wrote: >

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-21 Thread Szymon Lipiński
On 20 May 2016 at 22:43, Guyren Howe <guy...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 20, 2016, at 13:38 , Pierre Chevalier Géologue < > pierrechevalierg...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Le 04/05/2016 18:29, Szymon Lipiński a écrit : > >> On the other hand, when I was trying t

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-21 Thread Szymon Lipiński
On 21 May 2016 at 00:08, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote: > > > On May 20, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Guyren Howe <guy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2016, at 13:38 , Pierre Chevalier Géologue < > pierrechevalierg...@free.fr> wrote: > >>

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
ase will always be inconsistent" and "Indexes are useless, they don't give anything except for slowing down the database". So, don't believe in everything "wise" people say, just think, and check on your own. -- regards Szymon Lipiński

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging code on server?

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
There are >> breakpoints and such in PGAdmin, but I'll be that doesn't work for >> other languages. >> >> > There is a unit test framework for Postgres > > http://pgtap.org/ > > > Right, and it is quite painful to use compared to writing tests as some external program. -- regards Szymon Lipiński

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
ns when they could be making more money? But > this is far to often the case and the root cause is they did not have the > right tool (pun not intended) for the job. > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Szymon Lipiński <mabew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
erson can pick up. > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Szymon Lipiński <mabew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 4 May 2016 at 18:14, Will McCormick <wmccorm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I agree it's typically political but so are mos

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
se it is always simpler to migrate a database treated like a CSV file, where all the logic (including constraints) is in an external application. But do we really want that? On the other hand, when I was trying to store all my logic in a database, there was just one thing that made me hate it. Testing. Testing the procedures inside the database was not easy, not funny, and too much time consuming. -- regards Szymon Lipiński

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
d be about something else, start from an ORM, and show how to translate it to much better SQL, as ORMs are the things programmers usually understand, and they really don't bother that using them can be a bad idea. -- regards Szymon Lipiński

Re: [GENERAL] Thoughts on "Love Your Database"

2016-05-04 Thread Szymon Lipiński
logic to a database, then usually the management said "no, that's not doable, as we will have trouble with finding good sql programmers later", and we were still writing all the logic outside the database. -- regards Szymon Lipiński