Re: [SQL] Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres.

2004-10-12 Thread Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
A tested example in Python : Basically it counts the \t and accumulates the lines until it has enough and then prints the line. Note : as an exercise you could add a test so that there are exactly (columns-1) delimiters and not =(columns-1). def grouplines( in_stream, columns, delimiter ):

[SQL] Information about the command SQL create synonym.

2004-10-12 Thread Gerald . Laurent
Hello ! I am trying to find some informations about the SQL command create synonym. The command create synonym does not exit in the Postgres database. I had tested with the latest version (postgres8.0 beta3) and this command is not present. I supposed that this command create synnonym is an

[SQL] PL/pgSQL, RETURN NEXT, ORDER

2004-10-12 Thread Markus Bertheau
Hi, When I call a PL/pgSQL function that looks roughly like the following: ... FOR x IN SELECT ... ORDER BY ... LOOP RETURN NEXT x; END LOOP; RETURN; END; Is the order of the rows guaranteed to be preserved? Thanks. -- Markus Bertheau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SQL] Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres.

2004-10-12 Thread Tom Lane
Theo Galanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you can see row 2 has a value that holds a CR value which ends up wrapping around onto the third line. Postgres copy command does not like this and mysql is unable to replace the value with another type of delimiter, like a \r. So I gather I have

Re: [SQL] SQL confusion

2004-10-12 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
This is untested, but it might be enough to get you started: SELECT namecounter FROM name n WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM name WHERE hh 0 AND famnu = n.famnu ) GROUP BY famnu HAVING birthdate = min( birthdate ); What I'm trying to do here is grab all families

Re: [SQL] Information about the command SQL create synonym.

2004-10-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you say if this command will be implemanted in a future version of a postgres database ? I'm not currently aware of any concrete proposals to implement this feature, but previous discussion has not shown any strong resistance against the concept. -- Peter

Re: [SQL] Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres.

2004-10-12 Thread Theo Galanakis
Title: RE: Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres. Thankyou all for your advice, Looking further into the issue I have realised that data and formatting lines are denoted by the same CR/LF symbols. So if I where to replace all CR/LF symbols it would create a file with one line... I

[SQL] JDBC +CIDR

2004-10-12 Thread Johann Robette
Hi, Ive a table containing a CIDR field. Im using an EJB to create a new record in this table. I dont know how to pass the CIDR value. I tried by String but I get this error : javax.ejb.FinderException: Find failed: java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist: cidr = text