Re: [SQL] rollback

2001-10-26 Thread Haller Christoph
Hi everybody, I was playing with psql and accidently deleted a couple of records from my database. I am wondering if there is any way to restore them. I know that in Oracle you can do 'rollback work' from SQLPlus interface and it would rollback all the updates done to the database. That's

Re: [SQL] How to find primary keys by querying system tables

2001-10-25 Thread Haller Christoph
Is there a way of testing for membership in an int2vector-field? For example: select column, prim.key from ... where pg_attribute.attnum in pg_index.indkey ?? I think so. Refer to the array section of the documentation. Extract: To search for a value in an array, you must check each

Re: [SQL] Lock full database

2001-10-25 Thread Haller Christoph
I want lock full tables,how to write SQL command? thanks BEGIN ; LOCK TABLE tablename ; /* done, locked until commit; */ Refer to the SQL-LOCK-command for further information. Regards, Christoph ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have

Re: [SQL] Query On Case structure

2001-10-23 Thread Haller Christoph
Hi All, Can we create a query to find different values based on different criteria = from a table using case structure. For example Select Into :DBComment Case When localComment Is Null Then Comment When localComment = '123' Then 'Numeric Comment'

Re: [SQL] pgsql embedded again!

2001-10-23 Thread Haller Christoph
Hi Esteban, Your problem looks familiar to me, and it seems you did not follow my advice. Anyway, here is a C sample program which works. It has nothing to do with wrong types, but with a missing connection, but see for yourself. /* /opt/pgsql/bin/ecpg -o sampleprog01.c sampleprog01.sql

[SQL] Identifying obsolete values

2001-10-17 Thread Haller Christoph
First of all, thanks to Philip Hallstrom for the quick reply. Consider the following tables CREATE TABLE advncd_onfvalue (timepoint DATETIMENOT NULL, midINTEGER NOT NULL,/* measurement id */ lid

Re: [SQL] sql + C

2001-10-08 Thread Haller Christoph
I'm having some experience with C embedded SQL and what I can see at first sight is 1) DECLARE CURSOR statement - missing colon: EXEC SQL DECLARE C77 CURSOR FOR select datname from pg_user,pg_database where usename= :user and datdba= :usesysid; 2) before OPEN you have to declare and set the

Re: [SQL] challenging query

2001-10-05 Thread Haller Christoph
Consider the following table: A B C D select? --- 1 FOO A1 100 n 1 BAR Z2 100 n 2 FOO A1 101 y 2 BAR Z2 101 y 3 FOO A1 102 y 4 BAR Z2 99

Re: [SQL] challenging query

2001-10-05 Thread Haller Christoph
Consider the following table: A B C D select? --- 1 FOO A1 100 n 1 BAR Z2 100 n 2 FOO A1 101 y 2 BAR Z2 101 y 3 FOO A1 102 y 4 BAR Z2 99

Re: [SQL] TEXT in select

2001-09-29 Thread Haller Christoph
I've tried (column indexdef is of type text) select indexdef from pg_indexes where indexdef like '%pg_proc%' ; select indexdef from pg_indexes where position('pg_proc' in indexdef) 0 ; select upper(indexdef) from pg_indexes where position('pg_proc' in indexdef) 0 ; and all three worked as

Re: [SQL] is it possible to get the number of rows of a table?

2001-09-27 Thread Haller Christoph
I would like to compare the number of rows of one table and of another and use it in a query like this: SELECT * FROM WHERE number of rows of table EQUALS number of rows of table i.e. I only want get a query result if the tables

Re: [SQL] Registring a C function in PostgreSQL II

2001-09-20 Thread Haller Christoph
My understanding is, if you have system calls from within postgres, the child processes invoked are run in the postgres user's environment. So, login as user postgres and have a look what aliases are set. My idea is, because postgres is not a human user, these aliases are not set. I think,

Re: [SQL] Selecting latest value

2001-09-20 Thread Haller Christoph
Try create NEWtable (userid text, val integer, ts timestamp); insert into NEWtable select userid, val, max(ts) from table group by userid, val; Regards, Christoph Hi, I have a table which basically looks like this: create table (userid text, val integer, ts timestamp); This table

Re: [SQL] Selecting latest value II

2001-09-20 Thread Haller Christoph
What do you mean by the latest val for each userid I cannot understand how a value of type integer can have a attribute like latest. Sorry, but I need at least a bit more information. Regards, Christoph On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Haller Christoph wrote: Try create NEWtable (userid text

Re: [SQL] Registring a C function in PostgreSQL

2001-09-19 Thread Haller Christoph
Did you use the compiler option for generating position independent code (PIC) for use in building shared libraries. Did you use the linker option for creating a shared library - I think you did, the file suffix .so looks that way. I did it several times successfully using commands like

Re: [SQL] How to see the definition of an existing table?

2001-09-18 Thread Haller Christoph
Within psql you can do commands like \d tablename to learn rudimentary information about a table. Try this to learn more sophisticated information select u.usename, t.typname, a.attname, a.atttypid, a.attlen, a.attnotnull, a.attnum from pg_user u, pg_type t, pg_attribute a where

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Haller Christoph
As long as there are no nulls allowed in column 'dst' the select src,dst,count(dst) from ... should retrieve the same result. Try it. It should run faster anyway. Maybe there are other ways to word your query, but without more knowledge about your table structure and intentions I can't tell

Re: [SQL] Number the lines

2001-09-17 Thread Haller Christoph
Am I right in assuming you were asking for something like SELECT Rownumbering(), ... FROM Table ORDER BY Column ; and expecting a result like 1| ... 2| ... 3| ... ... where Rownumbering() is a PostgreSQL function If this is what you wanted, this is something I want for a long time

[SQL] ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index

2001-09-12 Thread Haller Christoph
[SQL] ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into a unique index I'm working on a C code application using loads of insert commands. It is essential to distinguish between an error coming from a misformed command or other fatal reasons and a duplicate key. In either case, the

Re: [SQL]

2001-09-07 Thread Haller Christoph
My understanding is you did it the best way. Alternatively, you may word your query as SELECT i.cname FROM fc_client_info i WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM fc_communication c WHERE c.acode = i.acode AND c.contactdate = '09/06/2001' ) ORDER BY lower(i.cname);

[SQL] ERROR: DefineQueryRewrite: rule plan string too big.

2001-09-07 Thread Haller Christoph
I tried to create a view as follows create view sesql_userindexes as SELECT c.relname AS TBL_NAME, i.relname AS IDX_NAME, x.indisunique AS UNIQUE_FLAG, 1+ (CASE WHEN x.indkey[1]=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END)+(CASE WHEN x.indkey[2]=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END)+ (CASE WHEN x.indkey[3]=0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END)+(CASE