Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 13:40:03 -0400,
Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The end result is to duplicate the data for a particular record in table
"a" so that all of it's related data in tables "b" and "c" is duplicated.
Where "b" is the middle table in a many to m
Thanks for your suggestion to use curval(), that will be useful. I'd
entirely forgotten about that function. That likely will help when combined
with Richard's suggestion and an idea I already had.
I'm sorry that the problem wasn't clearer. The best way I can describe it
is like this:
The end
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:34:35 -0400,
Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any ideas? If someone has an alternate method of achieving the same result
> I'd be excited to hear about it.
A more precise formulation of what exactly you are doing might be helpful.
>From your description it so
Matthew Nuzum wrote:
When the relationships are one to one or one to many this process is easy,
however sometimes there's a many to many relationship.
It seems that a helpful tool would be a query that can return just the pkey
of the original record copied from and the pkey of the newly created rec
I'm duplicating some fields in the table but the duplicates will have a new
primary key and a new foreign key. For example,
Table "b" looks like this:
bid (pkey default value is a sequence)
aid (fkey)
field1
field2
field3
INSERT INTO b (aid, field1, field2, field3)
SELECT 23, field1, fiel
Phil> execute ''column_values :=
Phil> column_values || quote_literal(r.'' || cr.column_name || '')'';
basic> FOR rec IN EXECUTE
basic> ''select column_values || quote_literal(r.'' ||
basic> cr.column_name || '') alias column_values''; LOOP
basic> column_values := rec.column_values;
basi
Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The two selects work seperately, but I'm still getting the
> syntax for the combined quiery wrong.
What you've got here reduces to
select co.co_r_id, co.count as com_count, cor.count as com_unseen
from
(select ...) co,
(select ...) cor on co.co_
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Monday 21 Jun 2004 4:11 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > On Monday 21 Jun 2004 3:19 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > from requests r, users u, request_types t,
> > > > request_states s, dealersh
On Monday 21 Jun 2004 4:11 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Monday 21 Jun 2004 3:19 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > from requests r, users u, request_types t,
> > > request_states s, dealerships d, departments de, customers c
> > > lef
