[SQL] Re: ask for help !!! (emergency case)

2001-02-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Jaruwan Laongmal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >create view v1 as select * from t1,t2; >insert into v1 values(1,'wan1'); Quoting http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node149.html: : Because views are not ordinary tables, INSERTs , UPDATEs , and DELETEs on : views have no effect. The next se

Fwd: Re: [SQL] sum(bool)?

2001-02-25 Thread J.Fernando Moyano
El Viernes 23 Febrero 2001 16:22, escribiste: > hi there, > > i want to add up the "true" values of a comparison like > > sum(a>b) > > it just doesn't work like this > > any workaround? > > it is postgresql 7.0 under linux > > thanks > > olaf I did exactly the same thing two months ago I c

Re: Fwd: Re: [SQL] sum(bool)?

2001-02-25 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Thus spake J.Fernando Moyano > El Viernes 23 Febrero 2001 16:22, escribiste: > > i want to add up the "true" values of a comparison like > > > > sum(a>b) > > > > it just doesn't work like this > > > > any workaround? > > I did exactly the same thing two months ago > > I created this tiny fu

[SQL] conversion

2001-02-25 Thread Ken Kline
Hello, another brain twister, at least for me... i have a table of varchar and one of the values I want to insert into another table, one of the columns is defined as INTEGER in destination table, column... and none of these statements seem to work INSERT INTO pledge_classes (semester, year) S

Re: [SQL] conversion

2001-02-25 Thread Ken Kline
follow up actually the destination column is defined as a numeric(4) the following are the statements again with there error messages: SELECT pseason, to_number(pyear,'') from temp; ERROR: Bad numeric input format ' ' SELECT pyear::int from temp; ERROR: Cannot cast type 'varchar' to

[SQL] create function w/indeterminate number of args?

2001-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I find myself in need of a minimum() function. This is different from the min() function, which operates across records; what I need is to be able to say: UPDATE foo SET newcol = minimum(field1, field2, field3, field4); >From what I can tell there is no such beast built in, but I wou

Re: [SQL] conversion

2001-02-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:11, Ken Kline wrote: > follow up > actually the destination column is defined > as a numeric(4) Could you to a \d on each of the tables and tell us the results. [ ... ] -- Sincerely etc., NAME Christopher Sawtell CELL PHONE 021 257 4451 ICQ UIN45863470