Re: [SQL] Date datatype

2004-12-21 Thread Achilleus Mantzios
O Pablo Digonzelli Dec 20, 2004 : hi all, Ca anyone send me an example how to update a date datatype? for example update table set birthdate = 200-01-01 doesnt work. # update table set birthdate = '2000-01-01'; TIA Pablo ---(end of

Re: [SQL] Date datatype

2004-12-21 Thread Iain
or, # update table set birthdate = to_date('2000-01-01','-MM-DD'); I'm not sure which is better though I tend to do it this way. regards Iain - Original Message - From: Achilleus Mantzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pablo Digonzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [SQL] linux clusters and pgsql

2004-12-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: hi, can postgres be run on a linux cluster, and if so what are the performance and other issues - checked archives, but the only info is over a year old PG uses shared memory to communicate between backends. Even if your clustering technology can handle that, it's

[SQL] commit in plpgsql function?

2004-12-21 Thread Dennis Sacks
Hi, I am converting oracle stored procedures to plpgsql. There are several of the oracle procedures where a parameter vCommit is passed into the procedure and: if vCommit = 1 then commit; do_something_commit(vdate); else do_something(vdate); end if; does this make sense

Re: [SQL] commit in plpgsql function?

2004-12-21 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
I don't think you can do transactions within a procedure in postgres, at least in version 7.x, which I am most familiar with. Page 579 on the postgres 7.4 manual says: Functions and trigger procedures are always executed within a transaction established by an outer query --- they cannot start

Re: [SQL] I'm stumped

2004-12-21 Thread thomas.silvi
Doug Y a écrit : I can't figure out an efficient way to do this. Basically I had a typical 3-tier relationship: (Employee - Department - Division) However, at some point the need to move employees arose, but instead of changing the key in the emp table, we now have an over-ride table, so a

Re: [SQL] I'm stumped

2004-12-21 Thread Iain
Hi, I didn't bother analysing this too deeply, so keep that in mind when you read my reply ;-) However the point that set off alarm bells for me was this statement we now have an over-ride table. It seems to me that you shouldn't be over-riding anything, and the emp_dept table should just be