Re: [SQL] compare table names

2012-01-11 Thread Tony Capobianco
This is an old system that we converted over from Oracle just this past year. The first 10 days of this year bit us when needed warehouse tables were removed erroneously. I'm going to push uphill against management to try and create the tables as table_nameMMDD. Wish me luck! Thanks for all y

[SQL] amount of join's and sequential access to the tables involved

2012-01-11 Thread Gerardo Herzig
Hi all. Im working on a 'simple' query with 7, 8 left joins. After the 9nth join or so, explain analyze became to show the plan with many tables being read in sequential fashion. Of course, this slows down the query response in a factor on 10. I can alter the order in wich the join's are appended,

Re: [SQL] amount of join's and sequential access to the tables involved

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Lane
Gerardo Herzig writes: > Hi all. Im working on a 'simple' query with 7, 8 left joins. After the > 9nth join or so, explain analyze became to show the plan with many > tables being read in sequential fashion. Of course, this slows down the > query response in a factor on 10. increase join_collapse

Re: [SQL] amount of join's and sequential access to the tables involved

2012-01-11 Thread Gerardo Herzig
El mié, 11-01-2012 a las 10:40 -0500, Tom Lane escribió: > Gerardo Herzig writes: > > Hi all. Im working on a 'simple' query with 7, 8 left joins. After the > > 9nth join or so, explain analyze became to show the plan with many > > tables being read in sequential fashion. Of course, this slows dow

Re: [SQL] amount of join's and sequential access to the tables involved

2012-01-11 Thread Tom Lane
Gerardo Herzig writes: > So, what happens, when a plsql function is excecuted, it takes is own > enviroment variables, or something like that? No, but it probably cached a plan from an execution before you changed join_collapse_limit ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pg

[SQL] Unable To Alter Data Type

2012-01-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have an issue I can't figure out. I have the following TABLE: tysql=# \d customers Table "public.customers" Column| Type | Modifiers --++--- cust_id | character(10) | not null cust_name| character(50) | not null cust_a

Re: [SQL] Unable To Alter Data Type

2012-01-11 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Mennens Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:53 PM To: PostgreSQL (SQL) Subject: [SQL] Unable To Alter Data Type Now I'm attempting to ALTER the field 'cust_zip' TYPE from ch

Re: [SQL] Unable To Alter Data Type

2012-01-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, David Johnston wrote: > However, I will say again, you DO NOT WANT TO ACTUALLY DO THIS! > > The specific issue is that some US Postal Code begin with a zero ( 0 ) and > so whenever you want to the zip_code value you need to pad leading zeros if > the length is less

Re: [SQL] Unable To Alter Data Type

2012-01-11 Thread David Johnston
On Jan 11, 2012, at 19:30, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, David Johnston wrote: >> However, I will say again, you DO NOT WANT TO ACTUALLY DO THIS! >> >> The specific issue is that some US Postal Code begin with a zero ( 0 ) and >> so whenever you want to the zip_code v