[SQL] locking problem

2004-01-30 Thread cheater cheater
hi, can anyone help me out on the following scenario: why this is happening, if i'm doing any thing wrong or its the feature of postgres... regards cheetor PostgreSQL Steps: 1. Create a table create table mytab (name

Re: [SQL] limit 1 and functional indexes: SOLVED

2004-01-30 Thread Alexandra Birch
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: viernes, 30 de enero de 2004 7:08 Yeah, the problem with functional indexes is that the optimizer doesn't have any clue how the records are distributed since it only has statistics for columns, not your expression. Notice it's

Re: [SQL] limit 1 and functional indexes: SOLVED

2004-01-30 Thread Greg Stark
Alexandra Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It works perfectly - thanks a million! Strangely the offset 0 does not seem to make any difference. Gotta read up more about subqueries :) explain analyze select code,order_date from ( select code, order_date from

[SQL] Empty String Comparison Standard compliant?

2004-01-30 Thread Christoph Haller
Just a short question (PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on hppa-hp-hpux10.20, compiled by GCC 2.8.1) SELECT ('' 'GDMF') ; SELECT ('GDMF' ''); ?column? -- f (1 row) ?column? -- t (1 row) Are these results standard compliant? Looks at least pretty reasonable to me. It's just because I

Re: [SQL] Empty String Comparison Standard compliant?

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Christoph Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ '' is less than 'GDMF' ] Are these results standard compliant? I doubt that the SQL standard really says anything on the subject, but ISTM any rational string-sorting algorithm would put '' before anything else. It's just because I have a DBMS

Re: [SQL] Empty String Comparison Standard compliant?

2004-01-30 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Christoph Haller wrote: Just a short question (PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on hppa-hp-hpux10.20, compiled by GCC 2.8.1) SELECT ('' 'GDMF') ; SELECT ('GDMF' ''); ?column? -- f (1 row) ?column? -- t (1 row) Are these results standard compliant? I

Re: [SQL] query not using index for descending records?

2004-01-30 Thread email lists
Hi, | You probably don't want to do that. The DESC only applies to the | one expression it follows. What you want is probably: | explain select datetime,id from trafficlogs order by | datetime desc,id desc limit 20; This is exactly what I was after - worked a treat! Thanks. Darren

Re: [SQL] java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index

2004-01-30 Thread Achilleus Mantzios
O kyrios [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrapse stis Jan 29, 2004 : Now i a get another wierd error DEBUG] Transaction - -called safeRollback with null argument java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF is no longer supported at

PROBLEM SOLVEDRe: [SQL] java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index

2004-01-30 Thread mohan
Thank you all guys. Thank you very much. Yeah it was the driver issue. I was runnin postgres 7.4 but using the pg73jdbc3.jar driver. I did not know that. Thank you all once again for your help. --mohan O kyrios [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrapse stis Jan 29, 2004 : Now i a get another wierd error