[SQL] looking for example of inserting into a view

2008-08-20 Thread EXT-Rothermel, Peter M
I can't seem to find an example I vaguely remember seeing when I was originally learning about INSERT rules and views. This example features a view that is an outer join of several tables. The example shows how to generate a CSV file of the data in the view and then loading the data into the

[SQL] LIMIT question

2008-08-19 Thread EXT-Rothermel, Peter M
I need to use a LIMIT count in a query but I also need to know how many rows the query itself would yield without the limit. I can do this inside a transaction like this BEGIN SELECT COUNT(*) from table1 where blah; select * from table1 where blah LIMIT 1000; COMMIT Now I can give some feedback

[SQL] Savepoints and SELECT FOR UPDATE in 8.2

2008-08-01 Thread EXT-Rothermel, Peter M
I have a client application that needs: SELECT a set of records from a table and lock them for potential updates. for each record make some updates to this record and some other records in other tables call some call a function that does some application logic that does not access the