Re: [SQL] where not unique

2004-03-12 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
You're right, Reinoud. Sorry for my mystake... Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:54:25AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Alves Lima wrote: Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks, I've got a table which contains amongst other things a stock number and a registration numbe

Re: [SQL] where not unique

2004-03-12 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks, I've got a table which contains amongst other things a stock number and a registration number. I need to print out a list of stock number and reg number where reg number is not unique (cherished number plate transfer not completed). I've tried variations of a

Re: [SQL] About pg_dump

2004-03-11 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
I've made a test and it seems ok to me. I'm using utf-8 encoding under postgresql 7.3.3. Tom Lane wrote: "Rute Solipa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: it seems that the pg_dump command doesn't keep the encoding information. As of 7.4.2 it does emit a SET client_encoding. In prior release

[SQL] About pg_dump

2004-03-10 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Hi, everybody ! I don't know if this is the best list to ask this question but if it doesn't, please forgive me (should i try pgsl-general, maybe ?)... We have a postgresql database in production and i've 2 questions about pg_dumpall boring me. We "dump" both ddl and data as SQL command

Re: [SQL] Help to simplify sample query

2004-03-09 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Where can i find the documentation about "except" or "textcat" ? I've looked at html docs in my machine (i've a 7.34 copy) and i couldn't found information/sample of them. Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: do

Re: [SQL] Help to simplify sample query

2004-03-09 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
How about this: select cd_area from area a1 where not exists ((select 1,2 union select 98,45 union select 11,0) except select c2.cd_teacher,c2.cd_course from teacher_course c2 where c2.cd_course=a1.course) ? Tom Lane wrote: Daniel Henrique Alves Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: [SQL] Help to simplify sample query

2004-03-09 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Tomasz Myrta wrote: Can you try this query ? : select cd_area from area a1 join teacher_course c2 using (cd_course) where (cd_teacher,cd_course) in (select 1,2 union select 98,45 union select 11,0); Tomasz, the "in" in the query above will work like an "or" ((cd_teacher=1,cd_course=2) or (c

[SQL] Help to simplify sample query

2004-03-08 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Hi guys, i have a new question about how to simplify a query. I have the tables area_course(cd_area,cd_course) and teacher_course(cd_teacher,cd_course) and a set of pairs of values {(1,2),(98,45),(11,0),...}. Now, i must to select the areas which courses appears in teacher_course and mat

Re: [SQL] Simple SQL question

2004-03-08 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Thank you, Jeremy. I've built a function that returns a string from (cd_teacher, cd_course) and i've create a functional index over this function, like : create index teacher_course_idx on teacher_course (build_unique_2p(cd_teacher,cd_course)); select * from teacher_course where build_unique_2p

[SQL] Functional index and string concatenation

2004-03-08 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Is there a way to create a "functional index" over a string concatenation of two columns ? Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[SQL] Simple SQL question

2004-03-08 Thread Daniel Henrique Alves Lima
Hello, everybody. I've a simple question about SQL usage but i don't know even i can formulate this question. Well, i will try : I've a teacher_course table with columns cd_course, cd_teacher => teacher_course(cd_teacher,cd_course) and i've a set of pairs that contains the values for t