[SQL] Looking for comments

Rather thant making long sentences & comment. Anyone willing to give me a little help on this tables definition is welcome http://lautre.org/tsmets/DB.html Tomorrow the pageswill be colorized a little bit more & a drawing of the expected tables will be provided. Tx, Thomas, -- Thu Dec 28

Re: [SQL] How to trim values?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to figure out how to take a value like 3.68009074974387 >(that is calculated from values in my database) and have PostgreSQL >hand me 3.68. Any suggestions would be appreciated. cast it to numeric(x,2) (where x is the total number of digits,

[SQL] Simultaneous Connection Problem

I have a table that is sequence_number (my PK), session_start_time, and session_stop_stime. I would like to query it to determine the max number of simultaneous sessions. Has anyone conquered a problem like this? It seems like it should be in a book somewhere, but I haven't found it yet. Thank

[SQL] How to trim values?

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to take a value like 3.68009074974387 (that is calculated from values in my database) and have PostgreSQL hand me 3.68. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Jamu. -- Jamu Kakar (Developer) Expressus Design Studio, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SQL] MD5 use in PL/Perl

Marc Rassbach writes: > Attempting to xlate to PL/Perl > > settle=# create function md5out3(varchar) returns varchar(32) as ' > settle'# use MD5; > settle'# my $mdval = new MD5; > settle'# my $result ; > settle'# my $out; > settle'# $mdval->add($_[0]); > settle'# $result = $mdval->digest(); > set

[SQL] MD5 use in PL/Perl

I'd like to be able to only store the database of usernames and passwrods here locally as a md5 hash. (in case the black hats come to visitI'd like to make life hard for them) Using AuthPG, I should be able to create a SQL call to postgresbut there is no native md5 hashing function. I

[SQL] rserv

I'm getting ready to spend some time testing out the new replication server. The documentation is sparse, so I'm wondering if there are any known bugs? Also, is there a specific forum/list for discussion of the server? Thanks ... Bryan Ingram

Re: [SQL] 7.1 feature?

Kaare Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the dox I read: You're reading the 7.1 docs. 7.0 docs live at http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/postgres.htm regards, tom lane

[SQL] 7.1 feature?

I need to do something like this: SELECT n.name FROM (SELECT p.contact_seq AS contact_seq, p.lastname||', '||p.firstname AS name FROM person p UNION SELECT co.name AS name FROM company co) n; Of course there's more; this is cut from the original select. But PostgreSQL complains about SELECT

Re: [SQL] How to represent a tree-structure in a relational database

Ron Peterson wrote: > > This structure is more 'normal' in the sense that nodes without children > (in a tree, the leaf nodes) don't have records in the edge table. Phghpth. Should have had my coffee first. The first data structure given would only have a null parent id for the root node, not

Re: [SQL] Query Help

Thank you to everyone with their suggestions. Where on the PostgreSQL site would I have found more info on the NOT EXISTS At 11:20 AM 12/27/00 -0500, you wrote: >What do I have to do a query where information in table1 is not in table2 > >I am looking for something like > >Select table1.firs

[SQL] Strange Execution-Plan for NOT EXISTS

Hello all, I tried (just for academical fun) to resolve ID´s which are not used anymore, e.g.: ID NAME -- + -- 1 | NOBODY 2 | ANYBODY 4 | EVERYBODY Now I want to get "3" as the next usable ID. I really know that this is kind of bad style but a friend of mine asked me if I h

Re: [SQL] Query Help

"Brian C. Doyle" wrote: > What do I have to do a query where information in table1 is not in table2 > > I am looking for something like > > Select table1.firstname where table1.firstname is not in table2.firstname > and table2.date='yesterday' > > I tried > Select table1.firstname where table1.fi