Re: [SQL] COPY FROM - force a value

2007-02-08 Thread Demel, Jeff
That works like a charm. Thanks, Alvaro! -Jeff -Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:22 PM To: Demel, Jeff Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] COPY FROM - force a value Demel, Jeff wrote: > Is there a way

[SQL] COPY FROM - force a value

2007-02-08 Thread Demel, Jeff
Is there a way to force a value when you're doing a COPY FROM, importing a file into a table? Here's my query as it is now: COPY filetable (value1, value2, value3, value4, forcevalue1, forcevalue2) FROM 'C:\\InsertFiles\\thisfile.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ' ' ; The file only contains data for

Re: [SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres

2007-02-08 Thread Demel, Jeff
;t have to juggle users, permissions, and settings. -Jeff -Original Message- From: Richard Huxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:06 AM To: Demel, Jeff Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres Demel, Jeff wrote: >

Re: [SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres

2007-02-07 Thread Demel, Jeff
Can this be installed easily on Windows? -Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Demel, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:13 PM To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres Ah! Cool. Contrib

Re: [SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres

2007-02-07 Thread Demel, Jeff
Ah! Cool. Contrib/fuzzystrmatch has metaphone. Looks like it has soundex and levenschtein too. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:09 PM To: Demel, Jeff Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] metaphone and

[SQL] metaphone and nysiis in postgres

2007-02-07 Thread Demel, Jeff
Microsoft SQL server has two extended stored procedures that I need in Postgres: xp_nysiis and xp_metaphone. They do fuzzy matching on strings. Are there Postgres alternatives for these? Or maybe some other way to do phonetic/fuzzy matching that would be as effective? -Jeff -Original M

Re: [SQL] Nocount and scope_identity()

2007-02-02 Thread Demel, Jeff
> So, I'm wondering if NOCOUNT is supported in Postgres at all. If it's > not, what's the alternative? If it is, what is wrong with my syntax? Andrew wrote: Not as far as I know. What's it supposed to do? It suppresses the rowcount returned after the query runs. > I haven't gotten there yet,

[SQL] Nocount and scope_identity()

2007-02-02 Thread Demel, Jeff
I'm converting a MSSQL query to postgresql. It's something like this: SET NOCOUNT ON; INSERT INTO table_name([list]) VALUES([list]); SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() as newId; I get an error on the NOCOUNT statement: "syntax error at or near "on" at character 13" So, I'm wondering if NOCOUNT is supporte