Re: [SQL] help!

2002-10-24 Thread Horst Herb
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:15, John Geng wrote: > how to migrate sql from MS sql server to postgresql? > i'd like to tranfer sql schema from MS server > Example: > ***1* > if exists (select * from sysobjects > where id = object_id(N'[admin].[test]') and >

[SQL] High Availability PostgreSQL solution?

2002-10-24 Thread Charles H. Woloszynski
[This is a re-post.. my initial attempt seemed to have been lost. Apologies for any duplication] We are looking to create a two-machine high-availability configuration for PostgreSQL. We have been pursuing using something like rserv, but this appears to be more of a slave sync tool. Actually, t

Re: [SQL] Help on creating a High Availability PostgreSQL

2002-10-24 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> We are looking to create a two-machine high-availability configuration > for PostgreSQL. We have been pursuing using something like rserv, but > this appears to be more of a slave sync tool. Actually, this is also > important to us (as we expect we will need to scale to lots of readers > do

Re: [SQL] ORDER the result of a query by date

2002-10-24 Thread Henshall, Stuart - Design & Print
Title: RE: [SQL] ORDER the result of a query by date andres javier garcia garcia wrote: > Hello; > I've got the result of a query that appears as: >  cod_variable | cod_station | year | month | day | rain > -+---++--+ > --+-- >  3020

Re: [SQL] Sum of Every Column

2002-10-24 Thread Achilleus Mantzios
Hi tom. In postgresql you cannot have functions with a variable number of parameters. (pgsql supports some kind of method overloading based on the type and number of parameters, thats the reason why). But if you run Unix (with freebsd and linux it is trivial as you will see, with solaris you hav

Re: [SQL] 'next' or similar in plpgsql

2002-10-24 Thread Christoph Haller
> > In perl we have 'next' function to skip rest of the statements in the loop > and to start with next iteration. In plpgsql, do we have something > similar? How do we skip rest of the statements in a loop in plpgsql? > The only statement which can be used in a probably tricky way seems to be EXIT

[SQL] Basic question.

2002-10-24 Thread andres javier garcia garcia
Hi; I'm sorry for ask this basic question. But I can't find in the documentation. I'm connected to a database; and how can I execute a query that I've got in a file? And. If I'm not connected to any database. Can I execute a file that makes a query on a database? Thanks - Javi

Re: [SQL] Basic question.

2002-10-24 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik andres javier garcia garcia napisa?: Hi; I'm sorry for ask this basic question. But I can't find in the documentation. I'm connected to a database; and how can I execute a query that I've got in a file? And. If I'm not connected to any database. Can I execute a file that makes a qu

Re: [SQL] Basic question.

2002-10-24 Thread Tomasz Myrta
And. If I'm not connected to any database. Can I execute a file that makes a query on a database? Sorry, I made a mistake psql -f -U I'm not sure, but you can add export PGPASSWORD= before this command if you need a password. Tomasz Myrta ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [SQL] sub-select trouble: wrong SQL or PostgreSQL issue?

2002-10-24 Thread patrick
Thank you both for your prompt responses. Bug #526 (as Tom pointed out) does look very similar to my problem. I'll attempt to upgrade my development PostgreSQL and eventually my production servers if all goes well. Thanks again, On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:28:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I

Re: [SQL] sub-select with aggregate

2002-10-24 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik Stephan Szabo napisa?: I see these two queries that in 7.3 push the clause into the subquery and I believe should have the same output: create view v as select group_id, a/sum_a as percent_a, b/sum_b as percent_b from (select group_id, sum(a) as sum_a, sum(b) as su

Re: [SQL] sub-select with aggregate

2002-10-24 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Sorry, In second query is: drop view v; create view v as select B.id_biletu... Tomasz Myrta ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SQL] Problems with to_char(created, 'WW')

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
Hi. I have the following schema in PostgreSQL-7.2.2: CREATE TABLE session ( session_id varchar(256) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, created timestamp DEFAULT 'now' NOT NULL, last_accessed timestamp NOT NULL, destroyed timestamp NOT NULL, username varchar -- Allow sess

[SQL] ORDER the result of a query by date

2002-10-24 Thread andres javier garcia garcia
Hello; I've got the result of a query that appears as: cod_variable | cod_station | year | month | day | rain -+---++--+--+-- 30201 | 7237 | 1953 |1 | 1 |2 30201 | 7237 | 1953 |

Re: [SQL] Problems with to_char(created, 'WW')

2002-10-24 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:51:35PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > > janerik=# select created, to_char(created, 'WW') as week from session WHERE > username IS NULL ORDER BY week; Please, see docs and 'IW' (ISO week). Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~za

Re: [SQL] Problems with to_char(created, 'WW')

2002-10-24 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik Andreas Joseph Krogh napisa?: Now - my question is, why is monday 21. in week 42, but tuesday 22. in week 43? Read the documentation - 4.7. Data Type Formatting Functions "WW - week number of year (1-53) where first week start on the first day of the year" Year 2002 started on Tue

Re: [SQL] ORDER the result of a query by date

2002-10-24 Thread Achilleus Mantzios
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, andres javier garcia garcia wrote: > Hello; > I've got the result of a query that appears as: > cod_variable | cod_station | year | month | day | rain > -+---++--+--+-- > 30201 | 7237 | 1953 |

Re: [SQL] Simulating a SELECT..FOR UPDATE to LOCK and SELECT statement

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Ludwig Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to emulate a SELECT..FOR UPDATE to > series of LOCK/SELECT statement. No. LOCK can only acquire table-level locks; the point of SELECT FOR UPDATE is to acquire row-level locks. >I am surprised because according to the docs > (version

[SQL] Help on creating a High Availability PostgreSQL solution?

2002-10-24 Thread Charles H. Woloszynski
We are looking to create a two-machine high-availability configuration for PostgreSQL. We have been pursuing using something like rserv, but this appears to be more of a slave sync tool. Actually, this is also important to us (as we expect we will need to scale to lots of readers doing querie

Re: [SQL] sub-select with aggregate

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, as I understand it, > select * from a,b where a.a=b.a and a.a=3; > isn't going to realize that b.a=3 and act as if > you typed that. We have talked about adding code to make that deduction. The issue is how to do so without expending a lot o