Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread J.V.
Yes, I know that one. What I want to do however is within a stored procedure make a call and store all tables in a given schema in a list. Is this something you can answer? thanks J.V. On 9/29/2011 3:25 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: On 29/09/11 02:33, J.V. wrote: Is is possible within a

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 12:24 AM, J.V. wrote: What I want to do however is within a stored procedure make a call and store all tables in a given schema in a list. so procedure1 calls procedure2 (not sure why this extra level of procedures, but I'm playing along) and procedure2 does SELECT table_name

[GENERAL] stored procs / data types

2011-09-30 Thread J.V.
What data types do I have access to in a stored proc? I cannot seem to find the stored procedure manual. I am not speaking of database field/column data types, but rather stored proc data types. Regards, J.V. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs / data types

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 12:59 AM, J.V. wrote: What data types do I have access to in a stored proc? I cannot seem to find the stored procedure manual. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql.html I am not speaking of database field/column data types, but rather stored proc data types.

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 1:13 AM, J.V. wrote: thanks for the help, we have a production schema with 80 tables and a few of the tables have consumed the max limit for the id field, so I have to write a program (stored functions would be the fastest way to do this), that will go and drop the sequence, create

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 1:23 AM, John R Pierce wrote: convert the fields to bigint which are 64 bit and not likely to wrap around any time in this century indeed, this is as simple as ... alter table tblname alter column id type bigint; of course, you'll need to alter all the FK fields that refer to

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 1:28 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 09/30/11 1:23 AM, John R Pierce wrote: convert the fields to bigint which are 64 bit and not likely to wrap around any time in this century indeed, this is as simple as ... alter table tblname alter column id type bigint; of course, you'll

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread J.V.
For tables that already exist and have a foreign key relationship, is there an equivalent alter statement for the statement below? Does this mean that if table xxx.id primary key value changes, the foreign key value will change as well? If this is the case, then would not have to match up

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 30 September 2011 11:20, J.V. jvsr...@gmail.com wrote: For tables that already exist and have a foreign key relationship, is there an equivalent alter statement for the statement below? Does this mean that if table xxx.id primary key value changes, the foreign key value will change as

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/30/11 2:09 AM, J.V. wrote: Some tables have millions of rows, well, something like UPDATE tablename SET id=generate_series(1,numberofrows); will update every row to a sequential value. However, I have no idea how you would match the foreign key references in other tables to these new

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-30 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/30/2011 11:41 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 09/30/11 2:09 AM, J.V. wrote: Some tables have millions of rows, well, something like UPDATE tablename SET id=generate_series(1,numberofrows); will update every row to a sequential value. However, I have no idea how you would match the foreign

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-29 Thread Richard Huxton
On 29/09/11 02:33, J.V. wrote: Is is possible within a stored procedure to read all the tables in a schema into a list? [snip] I need to extract this meta-data for a project. Apart from information_schema mentioned elsewhere, start psql with -E and then try \dt and similar - it will show

[GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-28 Thread J.V.
Is is possible within a stored procedure to read all the tables in a schema into a list? From that list and for each table is it possible to find the foreign keys in that table? From that list of foreign keys, is it possible to find out which field in which table the FK corresponds to? I

Re: [GENERAL] stored procs

2011-09-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/28/11 6:33 PM, J.V. wrote: Is is possible within a stored procedure to read all the tables in a schema into a list? From that list and for each table is it possible to find the foreign keys in that table? From that list of foreign keys, is it possible to find out which field in which

[GENERAL] Stored procs / functions - execution failure

2008-06-14 Thread Damian Georgiou
Hi All, I am having an issue with a function where it used to run in a previous installation of postgres under windows. The box has since been decommissioned so I am unable to check exactly what version it was though it was version 8 under winxp. I am now running postgres 8.2.5 Under OSX 10.5.3

Re: [GENERAL] Stored procs / functions - execution failure

2008-06-14 Thread Tommy Gildseth
Damian Georgiou wrote: Hi All, I am having an issue with a function where it used to run in a previous installation of postgres under windows. The box has since been ERROR: function sp_schedulefromdate(unknown) does not exist LINE 1: select sp_scheduleFromDate('2008-01-01');

Re: [GENERAL] Stored procs / functions - execution failure

2008-06-14 Thread Craig Ringer
Damian Georgiou wrote: I am having an issue with a function where it used to run in a previous installation of postgres under windows. The box has since been decommissioned so I am unable to check exactly what version it was though it was version 8 under winxp. I am now running postgres 8.2.5

Re: [GENERAL] Stored Procs Vs User Defined Functions vis-a-vis UDF's in Postgresql

2007-10-29 Thread Albe Laurenz
Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote: lately I have been looking at difference between a Stored Proc and User Defined Functions in other RDBMS like Sql Server / Oracle. Nomenclature varies wildly between different Database Management Systems. Be careful. The SQL standard (2005) speaks of SQL-invoked

[GENERAL] Stored Procs Vs User Defined Functions vis-a-vis UDF's in Postgresql

2007-10-27 Thread Harpreet Dhaliwal
Hi, lately I have been looking at difference between a Stored Proc and User Defined Functions in other RDBMS like Sql Server / Oracle. However, in postgresql, I think Stored Procs are wrapped around in User Defined functions, if I am not wrong. The following is the list of main differences b/w a

[GENERAL] Stored procs: PL/Tcl only? Settable privs for them?

2000-07-11 Thread Randall Parker
I'm trying to figure out how to do in Postgres what I already pretty well understand in DB2: Create a stored procedure that accepts a couple of arguments, does a look-up in a table using those args in a where clause, and then return a boolean result of whether a matching row was found. Or

Re: [GENERAL] Stored procs: PL/Tcl only? Settable privs for them?

2000-07-11 Thread Karel Zak
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Randall Parker wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to do in Postgres what I already pretty well understand in DB2: Create a stored procedure that accepts a couple of arguments, does a look-up in a table using those args in a where clause, and then return a boolean

Re: [GENERAL] Stored procs: PL/Tcl only? Settable privs for them?

2000-07-11 Thread ryan
Hi, 2) Is CREATE FUNCTION pretty much a logical equivalent to CREATE PROCEDURE in other RDBMSs? I not sure how it is in other DBs, but a little differention is here; in current state is not available create routines that retuns tuple. Stored procs can returns tuples... but I'd like to