Re: [SQL] can a function return a virtual table?

2005-04-22 Thread Kai Hessing
Hi, and thanks for the answer ;) (*upps* just noticed, that I sent the answer accidently direct to poster^^ *sorry*) Michael Fuhr schrieb: I'll pick a nit and point out that the above isn't a valid query: test= SELECT xyz, abc FROM (SELECT * FROM tablex WHERE status -1); ERROR: subquery

[SQL] can a function return a virtual table?

2005-04-18 Thread Kai Hessing
This is the question i'm telling myself. It is because we don't really delete table entries, just setting a status field to '-1'. So a valid select would look like: SELECT xyz, abc FROM (SELECT * FROM tablex WHERE status -1); It would be much nicer to have to write something like: SELECT xyz, abc

[SQL] Problem with SQL_ASCII

2005-03-04 Thread Kai Hessing
I have a little problem in PostgreSQL 7.39 (and previous). Our database is in 'SQL_ASCII'-Format. When doing SQL-Selects all special Characters (e.g. äöüß, etc...) are ASCII encoded (sure they are). Is there any function to change the encoding to - let's say - LATIN1 (reverse function for

Re: [SQL] Advanced SELECT

2005-03-01 Thread Kai Hessing
Hi, Tom Lane schrieb: [ experiments... ] This works reliably in 7.4 and up. Before that, the optimizer didn't make the connection between the sort ordering of the inner query and that needed by the outer, so it would repeat the sort step using only key1 and very possibly destroy the key2

Re: [SQL] Advanced SELECT

2005-02-28 Thread Kai Hessing
Richard Huxton schrieb: Search the mailing-list archives for custom aggregate concat and you'll quickly find an example of how to write your own custom aggregate (like SUM()). Warning - I don't think you can guarantee the order of elements in the aggregated sectors. Thank you very much.

Re: [SQL] Software for database-visualisation

2005-02-28 Thread Kai Hessing
Sean Davis schrieb: If you mean literally visualizing the ERD, you can look at SQL::Translator (on cpan) which can draw fairly complex ERDs and output as graphics (I forget the supported formats) I'll have a look at it. Thank you both! -- GnuPG-PublicKey -

[SQL] Software for database-visualisation

2005-02-23 Thread Kai Hessing
Another question: Which software are you using to visualize your database-structur. We're doing it with Quark, but are not very happy with this. Thanks Kai... -- GnuPG-PublicKey - http://www.hobsons.de/pgp/kai_hessing.asc Viele, die die schaendlichsten Handlungen begehen, fuehren hoechst

[SQL] Advanced SELECT

2005-02-23 Thread Kai Hessing
Hi Folks, I hope to have found the right group for my question. I have difficult sql-task. I try to describe it simple: We have a table 'company' with a cid and a table 'sector' with a sid. They are connected m:n via a third table 'company_sector' which contians csid, cid and sid. The normal