[SQL] Is it possible to select encoding in PLPGSQL function?

2003-03-19 Thread Frankie Lam
Is it possible? Thank you! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [SQL] the best way to get some records not in another table

2003-03-19 Thread jack
Hi, According to the following report, I think using "except" would be the best way to do. Thank you! Jack EXPLAIN SELECT DISTINCT a.c1 FROM test_j2 a WHERE a.c1 NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT b.c1 FROM test_j1 b); Unique (cost=54544.91..54547.41 rows=50 width=6) -> Sort

Re: [SQL] trouble with query

2003-03-19 Thread jasiek
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 03:47:55PM +0100, alexj wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking how can I do to insert multiple values from a > complexe query. > > What I want to do is something like that : > > INSERT INTO est_planifie_jour (id,ref_activite,ref_ressource,ref_jour) > (SELECT nextval('est_p_id_p')

Re: [SQL] integrity of column used to order rows

2003-03-19 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday March 19 2003 9:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I want to be able to do is make sure that at all times the child > records linked to a parent record have values for the "rank" field that > are consecutive starting at 1, ie (1,2,4,5,6) not (1,2,4,5,7). > > Can someone offer the be

[SQL] integrity of column used to order rows

2003-03-19 Thread cliff
hello, I was hoping someone might be able to help me with this problem... I have a table that is essentially joined back to a parent table. I have a column in the child table called "rank" that is a simple integer data type, used to indicate the order that the child elements should be displayed

Re: [SQL] vacuum all but system tables

2003-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Victor Yegorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > May be I'll put my question in a different manner: > System tables are location-wide (I mean one set of tables for PostgreSQL > location) or each database has it's own set of system tables? pg_database, pg_shadow, pg_group are shared, the rest are pe

Re: [SQL] vacuum all but system tables

2003-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Victor Yegorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to make a script to automatically vacuum all my DBs nightly. And > I'd like to skip system tables, starting with pg_*. Um ... what in the world makes you think that's a good idea? System tables need maintenance too.

Re: [SQL] howto/min values

2003-03-19 Thread Christoph Haller
> My postings seem to double on me. It's standard procedure to reply twice, one to the list and one to the sender, because you don't need to subscribe to the list to get the answers. But if you are subscribed and ask a question you usually get two. > > Now this works. So going to the next questio

Re: [SQL] vacuum all but system tables

2003-03-19 Thread A.Bhuvaneswaran
> I'd like to make a script to automatically vacuum all my DBs nightly. And > I'd like to skip system tables, starting with pg_*. If you run the process as non-super user, it must skip your system tables. On the other hand, if you run it as a super user, it must be done table wise from your scr

Re: [SQL] howto/min values

2003-03-19 Thread Sjors
Hi,   My postings seem to double on me. Well thanks to everybody that answered. They were not the answers I was hoping for but, I found one in the docs. Let me explain again what I'm doing with a example:   table:   points    id    distance 1            25    0.26598333 1            32   

Re: [SQL] Listing Users

2003-03-19 Thread Achilleus Mantzios
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Kyle wrote: > What is the SQL command to list users? > > CREATE USER, DROP USER, ALTER USER, USER > > I just can't seem to find the command to list them. SELECT * from pg_user ; > > -Kyle > > > ---(end of broadcast)---

[SQL] Listing Users

2003-03-19 Thread Kyle
What is the SQL command to list users? CREATE USER, DROP USER, ALTER USER, USER I just can't seem to find the command to list them. -Kyle ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SQL] Casting with character and character varying

2003-03-19 Thread Christoph Haller
> > Hi all. > Recently I face some problem with casting character type variable and > varchar variable. > The situation was like: I had 2 table, on table A, the user_name is defined > as character(32), and table B uses varchar(32). I have 1 function and a > trigger to manipulate with these data. >

[SQL] vacuum all but system tables

2003-03-19 Thread Victor Yegorov
Hello. I'd like to make a script to automatically vacuum all my DBs nightly. And I'd like to skip system tables, starting with pg_*. I've seen in the list archives somebody's solution using regexps, something like: $> vacuum analyze !~ ^pg_; It doesn't work for me, and I cannot find the origin

Re: [SQL] Number of rows affected by an update

2003-03-19 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik David Witham napisa?: Hi, Is there a way of capturing how many rows a select, delete or update affect from within a PL/pgSQL function? Read Postgres documentation. 19.5.5. Obtaining result status GET DIAGNOSTICS var_integer = ROW_COUNT; Regards, Tomasz Myrta --