[SQL] Re: "drop constraint trigger" on PostgreSQL

2000-12-08 Thread Kyle
Bryan Field-Elliot wrote: Searching the archives, it seems you once tried to find out how to "drop constraint trigger" on PostgreSQL; did you ever figure it out? Thank you,Bryan I wrote the following function and installed it in my database.  I can then call it with a select (yuk) to drop a co

Re: [SQL] How to...

2000-12-08 Thread Joel Burton
> Hi, > > I'am wondering if it is possible to retrieve the last added > record of a table? > I don't think there is a default SQl-query to do so. Is there > a PostgreSQL way? What is it you want to do? If you want to find out what auto- generated ID will be or was inserted, you can use a sequenc

[SQL] How to...

2000-12-08 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi,   I'am wondering if it is possible to retrieve the last added record of a table? I don't think there is a default SQl-query to do so. Is there a PostgreSQL way?   gr,   Willem

[SQL] plpgsql

2000-12-08 Thread Jie Liang
> Hi, there, Is there any way to handle exception ( such as cannot insert duplicate key on a unique index) in plpgsql function? I don't want it abort whole transaction instead I want to do something else if it happened, but I don't want to use a select stmt first to waste the time. In Orcale,

Re: [SQL] FOREIGN KEY errors.

2000-12-08 Thread Stephan Szabo
There was a bug (which should be fixed for 7.1) that got the arguments wrong for the alter time check of the existing data. I think I should be able to get a patch together to fix it once I get a copy of the 7.0.3 source. Can you send the table schema as well so I can test it out? Stephan Szab

RE: [SQL] subqueries as values in updates

2000-12-08 Thread Francis Solomon
Hi, The syntax you used works fine for me. francis=# select version(); version --- PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.2 (1 row) Hope this helps Francis Solomon > -Original Mes

[SQL] subqueries as values in updates

2000-12-08 Thread patrick . jacquot
hello, list. are subqueries alloved as values in an update command ? e.g. update a set a.attribute1 = a.attribute1 + (select sum(b.attribute1) from b where b.attribute2=a.attribute2); If yes, how is the correct syntax ? If not, is there a hope for it in a future version ?