Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Kevin Crain
I still can't imagine why you'd ever need this...could you explain what this does? I'm just curious now On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Kevin Crain wrote: > This is an unfortunate situation, you shouldn't be required to do > this, the people generating your requirements need to be more > in

Re: [SQL] combining strings to make a query

2011-07-12 Thread Kevin Crain
You can do full-text search in postgres now using ts_vectors. I'd recommend going that route. Doing like comparisons is not a good idea if you don't know the first part of the string you are searching forIt appears to be much faster from my experience to search for ab% than it is to search fo

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Kevin Crain
This is an unfortunate situation, you shouldn't be required to do this, the people generating your requirements need to be more informed.  I would make damn sure you notify the stakeholders in this project that the data model is screwed and needs a redesign.  I agree that you should split this tabl

Re: [SQL] interesting sequence

2011-07-12 Thread Kevin Crain
IF this field is unique you shouldn't get duplicates from a function; the transaction will either succeed or fail; the beauty of a function is that you can return an error message. I personally prefer to handle errors at the application level, but if you have admins running ad-hoc queries on the d

[SQL] combining strings to make a query

2011-07-12 Thread Wes James
I'm using Erlang and postgresql to build a web interface. When I create the query string I get something like: select * from table where field::text ilike '%%' But when I do that (if someone types in '\' for part of the text search), I get a pg log entry to use E'\\' How would I use E'' wit

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Miguel Angel Conte
Yes, sure. I mean, I can't change the whole process which creates columns dynamically. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Reinoud van Leeuwen < reinou...@n.leeuwen.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:08:36PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > > Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:08:36PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I can't make any change for > now... but by adding columns you *are* making changes to it... Reinoud -- __ "Nothing is as subjectiv

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I can't make any change for > now... > Thanks for your answer! when you can change it, look at hstore -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to you

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Viktor Bojović
Hi Miguel, maybe you can split table to two tables with one-to-one connection. The another way is to create dynamic-attribute-tables which means to store data in columns, not in rows. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using postgresql 9 and I'd like to know

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Miguel Angel Conte
> > Hi Ken, > > Do you know a good way to get the max row size in a table? > Or maybe I'll have to get this information from the metadata > > thanks! > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, k...@rice.edu wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:08:36PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: >> > Unfort

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread k...@rice.edu
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:08:36PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I can't make any change for > now... > Thanks for your answer! > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Reinoud van Leeuwen < > reinou...@n.leeuwen.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 20

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Miguel Angel Conte
Unfortunately It's an inherited data model and I can't make any change for now... Thanks for your answer! On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Reinoud van Leeuwen < reinou...@n.leeuwen.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:48:26PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > > > Something like: > > "If I'm

Re: [SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:48:26PM -0300, Miguel Angel Conte wrote: > Something like: > "If I'm not going to exceed the size limit, then I can add a new column" You want to add columns in your application? Are you sure you have the right datamodel? Reinoud -- __

[SQL] Max column number.

2011-07-12 Thread Miguel Angel Conte
Hi, I'm using postgresql 9 and I'd like to know if there is a way to "ask" if when I'm going to add a column, I'm exceeding the max number of columns. I've found that the max number of columns is 1600 and It's depends of the data types. I've made a test adding 1600 columns using different data ty