Re: [SQL] Arithmetic operation on DATE

2001-08-13 Thread Antti Linno
Ok, so here's my small knowledge on this matter select date(date('2001-08-20')+interval('6 months')); date 2002-02-20 I'm sure there's more elegant and shorter ways of doing this, but a quick answer, maybe you're stuck somewhere :) Antti Tested it on 7.0.2. On

[SQL] TEXT field size

2001-06-26 Thread Antti Linno
Hallo. Maybe its not the right list, but does the Postgres 7.1 support now unlimited text field? In previous versions it was limited to max 31k, or even less, depending on the compilation etc. Greetings, Antti ---(end of broadcast)--- T

[SQL] BLOB

2001-05-13 Thread Antti Linno
Hallo. I was just searching documents how to define BLOB in postgres and couldn't find any hints. Could somebody enlighten me? Postgres is 7.0.3. I need to insert into DB text field more than 8000 symbols and there is no way, I can upgrade postgres to 7.1, so only way I see it's possible, is by d

Re: [SQL] RE:Table corrupted and data lost (second time in onemonth!!)

2001-04-25 Thread Antti Linno
Hm, about memory exhausting I don't know, but the other day I tested the limits of the text field in Postgres 6.5.(2 or 3). When ppl inserted text in windows environment through html forms, then they got no more than 5000+a bit more symbols. Ok, I decided to test and inserted 8000+bit more from li

[SQL] Birthday search.

2001-03-22 Thread Antti Linno
I have a table with personal data, including date of birth in date format. What i need is a select that searches birthdays in certain range. E.g. I need to find all birthdays starting from 15.april until 20th december. As you all understand, year doesn't matter :P Any simple and elegant solutions

[SQL] interval query.

2001-01-31 Thread Antti Linno
Good morning. Is there some way to make interval query? Towns table(estonia towns, heh :P) id | name 1 Elva 2 Tartu Tallinn 3 Tallinn/Haabersti 4 Tallinn/Mustamae ... etc. What I need is when the town's id= I want to make query where id= OR id=

Re: [SQL] psql question(actually readline etc.)

2000-11-23 Thread Antti Linno
Good morning. Since I asked this question before psql question, I would mention other aspects as well. I had same problem, history not working etc. So I was told to install readline. I checked, and readline rpm was installed. So next thing, I was told, was to upgrade my postgres. I checked for up

[SQL] Postgres 7.0.X and arrow keys

2000-11-20 Thread Antti Linno
Morning. I installed new Mandrake 7.2 and was eager to try new postgres. So I installed it and used pgsql. What surprised me was that the arrow keys wouldn't work anymore as history, instead I get those ascii codes. I was wondering is it the matter of configuration or is it a new feature that one

Re: [SQL] insert value of form - checkboxes

2000-11-09 Thread Antti Linno
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Astrid Hexsel wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a form which has got checkboxes and I am having problems to have their > values stored in different rows of a table. > > > What I have done is: > > # colour_id is the name of my checkboxes in the input tag > > > etc ...

Re: [SQL] grant select on ALL(?) to dbuser;

2000-10-03 Thread Antti Linno
Hm, I usually use pg_dump -f smthng.out dbname -u after that program asks for username and password, there were some possibilities within postgres too, but you can find them yourself. And why not to dump all data as superuser, that way u have no problems with privileges at all. Antti On Tue, 3 Oc

[SQL] Extracting data by months

2000-08-03 Thread Antti Linno
Lo. I'm in dire need of knowledge, how to extract data by month. Monthday and year arent' important, those I can't give from perl script, but what I do give to postgres are the numbers of the months. Date field is in timestamp. I thought about date_trunc, but I can't think of, how to get data wi

[SQL] Opposite of LOCK

2000-07-12 Thread Antti Linno
Is there any possibility to unlock tables after they've been locked? The manual part of lock was fuzzy, so I ask from experts instead. MySQL uses lock and unlock. Antti.

[SQL] Ancient postgres+EXCEPT

2000-07-07 Thread Antti Linno
Lo. I have in my local machine quite new POstgresql [PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66] but the machine, I am writing scripts for has some ancient postgres(btw, how to see the version on psql, if its not shown at the start? ). I made a query SELECT ajaperiood.isi

[SQL] Aww, sorry (last day of month)

2000-07-05 Thread Antti Linno
I thought, I finished that group by theme. What i ment was, that I have information about workers, and I have to make report on them. Report should contain status about workers with the restriction , that the data is about last day of the month. I use perl as a scripting language, and how the he

[SQL] GROUP by finish&&last day of month

2000-07-05 Thread Antti Linno
Ok, if I want to get non-aggregat data in groups, I use order by. This group by seemed so logical though, but the fruit that u can't have, is usually the most sweet. New question, how to get the last day of month(order data by last day of month). And to prevent chain letter from misunderstanding

[SQL] Group BY ...(cont.)

2000-07-05 Thread Antti Linno
Ok, if I want to use group by, then I have to put every select field afterwards to group by. But I do want to group by one field. Hence select workgroup,id from job group by workgroup,id; would create groups of 1? But I want to group by workgroups. Sorry if my explanation is fuzzy. A.

[SQL] GROUP by

2000-07-05 Thread Antti Linno
I have table job, and I want to select data from it, grouping by workgroups. When I use select id,name from job where workgroup='top leaders' AND ... group by workgroup; When I want to group, I get ERROR: Illegal use of aggregates or non-group column in target list I'm confused, why does quer

Re: Antw: [SQL] LEFT JOIN

2000-07-04 Thread Antti Linno
> I think, the following select will solve your problem > > select first.id > from first > except > second.id_first > from second; > Nay, I got parse error. Antti

[SQL] LEFT JOIN

2000-07-04 Thread Antti Linno
Greetings. I have a problem. I have 2 tables. E.g. work and workers. I want to select records, that 1st table has, and the second hasn't(both have id attribute). I mean I can't do it with is NULL, because those records don't exist. I was shown, how it is done with mysql select first.id,second.id

[SQL] extract last months data

2000-06-28 Thread Antti Linno
Lo. Today I digged in manuals and other docs, but didn't find any hint, how to get data from table, where some cols are in date or datetime format, and the data was about last month, or about special month. Psql help was unhelpful too. Here's example: In table workers is data with different date.