Re: [SQL] Problem while using lo_import and lo_export

2006-08-02 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/2/06, Aaron Bono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/2/06, Penchalaiah P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have PostgresSQL database connection from server. Server ip is 172.16.5.179 > > > > Now I want use lo_import and lo_export function for storing images into the database. > > > >

Re: [SQL] autoupdating mtime column

2006-08-04 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/4/06, David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/4/06, Richard Huxton wrote: > David Garamond wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Please see SQL below. I'm already satisfied with everything except I > > wish in > > #4, mtime got automatically updated to NOW() if not explicitly SET in > > UPDAT

Re: [SQL] how do I check for lower case

2006-08-10 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/10/06, Juliann Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a table with a column, lets call it identifier, that is defined as varchar(8) that should never contain lower case letters. Its a large table. Is there a way to query the table to see if any values in this column are lower case and to

Re: [SQL] Undo an update

2006-08-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
If it was inside a transaction, and the transaction is still open, then just rollback. Otherwise, no. I'm not sure if there's any way of doing some kind of PITR, no familiar with it. If not, best bet is to recover from the newest backup set you have. Regards, Rodrigo

Re: [SQL] Undo an update

2006-08-16 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/16/06, Markus Schaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Kis, Kis János Tamás wrote: > So, if you send every insert, update, delete command to a > logger-table, then you can to undo anything. But this is just re-inventing the wheel, we already have Point-in-Time recovery. Or do I miss someth

Re: [SQL] Retrieving 'Credit' when 'C'

2007-02-15 Thread Rodrigo De León
SELECT CASE WHEN TYPE = 'C' THEN 'CREDIT' END AS TYPE FROM mytable ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [SQL] Change a field to sequence (serial)

2007-02-24 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 2/24/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi lists, Is there possible to change a bigint field (primary key) to a serial ? If yes how it is possible ? I was trying to do that but the pgadmin don't enable the change to sequence. What is the problem my friends ? Regards

Re: [SQL] Change Default Database

2007-02-26 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 2/26/07, Rommel the iCeMAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I wrote a database creation script that begins with commands to drop the existing database (if it exists) and create it from scratch. These commands execute fine, the problem is that all subsequent commands are executed on the def

Re: [SQL] Change Default Database

2007-02-26 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 2/26/07, Rommel the iCeMAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the swift responses, I tried the \c command but I got the following error: ERROR: syntax error at or near "\" SQL state: 42601 Character: 520 Here's a code snippet ... -- -- TOC entry 1685 (class 1262 OID 16453) -- Name: tes

Re: [SQL] How to return a select query

2007-03-03 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/3/07, Eugenio Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I would like to know how can I return a select expresion, and stored in a variable, as cursors, but without the need of fetching it, and just to get the hole resultset. For example. I want to get this query: Select * from table1, and s

Re: [SQL] Time of executed query

2007-03-06 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/6/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, It is possible to retrieve the time of a SQL statement leads to execute ? I would like to put in my application how much time each operation leads to finish. Any suggestion ? -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequi

Re: [SQL] Time of executed query

2007-03-06 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/6/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, It is possible to retrieve the time of a SQL statement leads to execute ? I would like to put in my application how much time each operation leads to finish. Any suggestion ? -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequi

Re: [SQL] Select when table have missing data

2007-03-08 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 2 Mar 2007 01:17:33 -0800, Lars Gregersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a table that contains historical exchange rates: date_time | timestamp xrate | real There is a maximum of one entry per day, but data are missing on weekends and holidays. For these missing dates I must use the va

Re: [SQL] CREATE TABLE

2007-03-09 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/9/07, Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello From my asp page i create a table TableName = "CON01" strSQL = "CREATE TABLE " & TableName & " ( ID text, N_GEN serial not null);" But the problem i have is that when i go and open my database in pgadmin the table nam

Re: [SQL] Running in single instance mode

2007-03-09 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/9/07, Karthikeyan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Everybody, We are using postgres 8.1.0. I want to do some maintenance work. Hence, I want to run postgres in single user mode so that external people won't be able to access the database. How can I run the postgres in singl

Re: [SQL] import CSV file

2007-03-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/13/07, T E Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is pretty ingenious! Just a few minor problems: - how does COPY know which column is which? - how do I specify DELIMITER as TAB? See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-copy.html Also, it's nopt happy about the date format : 2

Re: [SQL] ordering by multiple columns

2007-03-14 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/14/07, Pablo Barrón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I'm trying to order a list in which the first parameter to order is a specific field, and the second should vary depending on a specific condition. More explicit, I would like to do something like: - ORDER BY a.column1, [b.column2 if c.

Re: [SQL] Joins on many-to-many relations.

2007-03-15 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/14/07, Wiebe Cazemier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I discovered that removing the subselect (the entire second condition of the join actually) is not the only thing that speeds it up. If I remove the LIKE check on account.description, it's also a lot faster (152 ms as opposed to 2915 ms), alth

Re: [SQL] Temp tbl Vs. View

2007-03-29 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 3/29/07, Radhika Sambamurti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have an interesing problem relating to sql and performance issues and am looking at ways I can increase the performace from postgres. Currently I have a view created from two tables. All the selects are being done on the view -

Re: [SQL] rowcount function in postgres???

2007-04-07 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 4/7/07, Karthikeyan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am using 8.1.0 postgres and trying to write a plpgsql block. In that I am inserting a row. I want to check to see if the row has been inserted or not. In oracle we can say like this begin insert into table_a

Re: [SQL] Replace string

2007-04-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 4/10/07, PostgreSQL Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to replace a title with dashes and also remove punctuation. e.g, The blue fox's fur. -> The-blue-fox-fur Thanks for any input, J SELECT translate('The blue fox''s fur.', ' .''', '-') ---(end of broa

Re: [SQL] Doing a conditional insert/update

2007-04-19 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 4/19/07, Markus Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I'm currently developing my first web app with Postgres and I have a question. How do I perform a conditional insert/update? To clarify: I need to insert data into a table when the primary key is not already in the table, or an update

Re: [SQL] Retrieve month from date

2007-04-20 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 4/20/07, RPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks both of you, I ran EXPLAIN command on above suggested query and got following result: "Aggregate (cost=2.77..2.79 rows=1 width=10)" " -> Seq Scan on studentfeespayment (cost=0.00..2.77 rows=1 width=10)" "Filter: (date_part('month'::

Re: [SQL] Question on interval

2007-04-20 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 4/20/07, Wei Weng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all. How do I write a query that converts an interger to the interval type? Like convert integer 10 to INTERVAL '10 seconds'? The integer is a column in a table though, so it is more like convert integer tbl.theInteger to INTERVAL 'tbl.theInte

Re: [SQL] Needs Function

2007-05-03 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/2/07, Penchalaiah P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need a user defined function for the following purpose…. If I pass a string with comma ( , ) separated chars/values…. It should be appear in next line… Ex: select get_sep_str ('SK, rp, h, j, 6, 9, kl') from dual; Output : SK rp h j 6

Re: [SQL] Convert serial column to regular integer

2007-05-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/11/07, Collin Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a need to convert an incorrectly typed serial column to a regular integer column. Basically this just involves removing the sequence. I am able to successfully remove the default value (DROP DEFAULT) (which seems to use nextval) and no

Re: [SQL] Funny date-sorting task

2007-05-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/12/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 07:40 PM 5/12/07, Andreas wrote: >I've got a stack of tasks to show in a list. >Every task has a timestamp X that may be NULL or a date. It contains the >date when this tasks should be done. >Sometimes it has date and the time-part, too. > > >

Re: [SQL] table juxtaposition

2007-05-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On May 1, 10:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I have a table with 2 issues, issue_A and issue_B, a table with action > items related to the issues, > > issue_A AI_A1 > issue_A AI_A2 > issue_A AI_A3 > issue_B AI_B1 > issue_B AI_B2 > > and network elements that the issues affect: > > is

Re: [SQL] How to retrieve a n-ary tree in SQL?

2007-05-14 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/14/07, Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to get a query (of function) to retrieve a n-ary tree: 1 parent node has n children and the tree is n levels deep? See: http://search.postgresql.org/search?q=tree&m=1&l=4&d=365&s=r ---(end of broad

Re: [SQL] How to process inverted comma in "EXECUTE 'insert into xxx values(...)';"?

2007-05-14 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/14/07, Nemo Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Look at this problem: when execute 'insert into lse_installations values(' || ||obj_id|| || ',' || ||div|| || ',' || ||sub|| || ',' || ||obj_type|| || ',' || ||obj_name|| || ',' || ||pstcd|| || ','

Re: [SQL] How to process inverted comma in "EXECUTE 'insert into xxx values(...)

2007-05-15 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/15/07, Nemo Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I must use it in function,so... Do you have another solution? So? t=# CREATE TABLE d(i INT); CREATE TABLE t=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION add1(x INT) RETURNS INT AS t-# $$ t$# BEGIN t$# INSERT INTO

Re: [SQL] SQL Query Validate Records Multiple Tables - Help Needed

2007-05-15 Thread Rodrigo De León
On May 15, 8:17 am, Paul251 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello... > > I am trying to validate a asset number (10 Characters) from one table > to another table. Problem is they are in two different DB's and > haven't done that before? > > Basically trying to take record 1 from Table 1/DB1 and valida

Re: [SQL] off topic

2007-05-24 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/24/07, chester c young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on lwn I read that pg is having problems releasing because of a want of reviewers. although my C is far too rusty I'd like to help out, perhaps with doc or testing. can someone direct me to the appropriate site? See: http://www.postgresq

Re: [SQL] group by day

2007-05-24 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/24/07, Edward W. Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an audit table that I am trying to get a count of the number of distinct entries per day by the external table key field. I can do a select count(distinct(id)) from audit where timestamp >= '01-may-2007' and get a total count. What

Re: [SQL] slow query execution

2007-05-30 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 5/30/07, Trigve Siver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you point me to some sources or give me some examples, please? CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ROWNUM() RETURNS BIGINT AS $$ BEGIN RETURN NEXTVAL('ROWNUM_SEQ'); EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN CREATE T

Re: [SQL] current_date / datetime stuff

2007-06-04 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/4/07, Joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I was hoping someone here may be able to help me out with this one: Is there anything similiar to: SELECT current_date; that will return the date of the first Monday of the month? Please let me know. Thanks, Joshua select ( select ca

Re: [SQL] current_date / datetime stuff

2007-06-05 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/5/07, Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We should have a onliner contest. I love oneliners!!! +1 on that ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [SQL] cluster index on primary key

2007-06-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/11/07, Sabin Coanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to know when I create a primary key on a table, does postgres will create automatically an index on that table related to the primary key columns, or I have to create it explicitly ? From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ind

Re: [SQL] calculate time diffs across rows with single timestamp

2007-06-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Jun 13, 11:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Singleton) wrote: > Any suggestions on how I can build a result set that would return > > ASSET 001 AAA 1:00 (1 hour) > ASSET 001 BBB 0:10 (10 minutes) > ASSET 001 CCC 0:08 (8 minutes) > ASSET 001 DDD {difference between timestamp and now()} > ASSET 002 A

Re: [SQL] Organization of tables

2007-06-14 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/14/07, Salman Tahir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help on how best to structure such data would be mostly appreciated. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization *** Grossly oversimplified example follows *** CREATE TABLE PEPTIDE( NAME TEXT PRIMARY KEY ); CREATE TABLE FR

Re: [SQL] inner join problem with temporary tables

2007-06-16 Thread Rodrigo De León
Guillermo Arias ha escrito: > Why it does not work??? > thanks for your help What's wrong with: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test1( OUT art_cod character varying , OUT art_descri character varying , OUT exis_ubic character varying , OUT exis_qty numeric ) RETURNS SETOF record AS $BODY$ SELECT a

Re: [SQL] How can you generate a counter for ordered sets?

2007-06-18 Thread Rodrigo De León
On May 17, 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Maier) wrote: > Conceptually, all the exons for a given gene form a set, ordered by > their "start" attribute. I need to add a new integer column to the > table to store a counter for each exon that indicates their position > in this ordering. > >

Re: [SQL] insert statement woes

2007-06-22 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Jun 22, 3:25 am, earthwormgaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, i'm trying to do a simple (so i thought) sql insert operation, > but i'm being told the insert violates unique constraint > say i've got three columns, two text and one integer for the id, i'm > doing the following > INSERT INTO m

Re: [SQL] simple SQL question

2007-06-25 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/25/07, Joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a column with the following values (example below) 5673 4731 4462 5422 756 3060 I want the column to display the numbers as follows: 56.73 47.31 44.62 54.22 7.56 30.60 I have been playing around with string functions but cannot seem to figu

Re: [SQL] record fields as columns in reports

2007-06-28 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 6/28/07, Reinoud van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the table I store the errormessages in has a format like this: CREATE TABLE repport_history ( rundate date, errordescription character varying(255), number bigint ) And I would like an output with something like: 06

Re: [SQL] SQL problem...

2007-06-28 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Jun 28, 1:43 pm, "Bauhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following table Price: > > FuelID PriceDate Price > LPG1/05/2007 0,2 > LPG13/05/2007 0,21 > SPS 2/05/2007 1,1 > SPS 15/05/2007 1,08 > > And I have to make the following query: > > FuelID PriceDate_from Price

Re: [SQL] using EXECUTE on Selects

2007-07-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/11/07, Radhika Sambamurti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to select data using EXECUTE? FOR-IN-EXECUTE. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-RECORDS-ITERATING ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [SQL] Bitmap Index Scan

2007-07-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/13/07, Radhika Sambamurti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to explicitly make the planner use bitmap index scan on a field? See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-query.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: do

Re: [SQL] Inserting an IF statement in the middle of a SELECT in pl/pgSQL code

2007-07-17 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/17/07, Norm Garand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /--- IF $7 IS NOT NULL THEN AND f.id = pid.specific_location_cid AND f.long_desc = $7 END IF ---/ How about: AND f.ID = pid.specific_location_cid AND f.long_desc = COALESCE ($7, f.long_desc) ---

Re: [SQL] group by range of values

2007-07-27 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/27/07, I wrote: > On 7/27/07, Carol Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something like: > > > > decade | average(salary) > > ---+- > >1940 | 69500 > >1950 | 5.33 > >1960 | 53000 > >1970 | 40333.33 > > CREATE TABLE tester ( > birth_year integer, >

Re: [SQL] group by range of values

2007-07-27 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/27/07, Carol Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something like: > > decade | average(salary) > ---+- >1940 | 69500 >1950 | 5.33 >1960 | 53000 >1970 | 40333.33 CREATE TABLE tester ( birth_year integer, salary numeric(10,2) ); SELECT SUBSTRING(T

Re: [SQL] Alternative to INTERSECT

2007-07-31 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 7/31/07, Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to make this more efficient with another construct, or > INTERSECT the only way to accomplish the desired result? SELECT f1.ID FROM TEST f1 JOIN TEST f2 ON f1.ID = f2.ID JOIN TEST f3 ON f2.ID = f3.ID WHERE f1.FI

Re: [SQL] Best Fit SQL query statement

2007-08-06 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Aug 6, 3:57 am, Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if I query on 98456 the result must be 98456, > However if I query on 98455 the result must be 9845 > and If I query 9849 the result must be 984 SELECT MAX(t1) FROM t1 WHERE '9849' LIKE t1 || '%'; ---(end of bro

Re: [SQL] PG won't use index on ORDER BY

2007-08-09 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/9/07, Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooops, just fugured that out. But - it still doesn't use the index if I remove > the "varchar_pattern_ops". Huh? CREATE INDEX person_lowerfullname_idx ON person ((lower(COALESCE(firstname, '')) || lower(COALESCE(lastname, ''; EXPL

Re: [SQL] Best Fit SQL query statement

2007-08-10 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/10/07, hubert depesz lubaczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unfortunatelly this query will be hard to optimize. Uh, how about SELECT MAX(t1) FROM t1 WHERE '9849' LIKE t1 || '%'; ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your frie

Re: [SQL] Getting pk of the most recent row, in a group by

2007-08-13 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/13/07, Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the second example, is it possible to get the primary key of the row > with the minimum expires time? SELECT TYPE, MIN(expires), COUNT(*) , (SELECT MIN(coupon_id) FROM coupon WHERE expires = MIN(c.expires)) A

Re: [SQL] Problem with phone list.

2007-08-15 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/15/07, Mike Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any hints would be much appreciated. DDL + sample data, please... ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [SQL] SUPERUSER vs CREATEUSER causes foul 'code smell'

2007-08-16 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/16/07, Joshua_Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the pg_users view - is there a way to differentiate between a role with > SUPERUSER priveleges, and a user who merely has the CREATEUSER flag? select * from pg_roles; > If I want to create a role who can create other roles, but not have ot

Re: [SQL] Make a SQL statement not run trigger

2007-08-21 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/21/07, Jon Collette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to run an insert,update, or delete and have it not launch > a trigger like it normally would? alter table disable trigger ... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-altertable.html ---(end of broa

Re: [SQL] PK & FK & Index Questio

2007-09-02 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 9/2/07, L D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I set the latter table's FK also to PK? It's sane. > If so, do I need to set an index on the FK even though it's also the primary > key? No need to do so. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In vers

Re: [SQL] Simple Query?

2007-09-11 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 9/11/07, Koen Bok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone has a hint? Another way: SELECT i.* FROM item i JOIN search_item s1 ON i.ID = s1.id_item JOIN search_item s2 ON s1.id_item = s2.id_item JOIN search_item s3 ON s2.id_item = s3.id_item WHERE s1.id_search = 1 AND s2.id_sear

Re: [SQL] Table transform query

2007-09-18 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 9/18/07, Philippe Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... into this: > > > serial dateL dateR > > 1 1 2 > 1 4 > 2 1 2 > 3 1 3 > 4 2 3 > 5 3 SELECT t1.serial, t1.DATE AS datel, t2.DATE AS dater FROM t t1 LEFT JOIN

Re: [SQL] SQL query question

2007-10-07 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Sep 21, 12:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Write the query (or queries if necessary) needed to count the number > of employees in each employee's department who are paid more than > their manager. SELECT e.dept, COALESCE (SUM (1), 0) AS n FROM employees e JOIN employees m ON (e

Re: [SQL] UNIQUEness and time interval

2007-10-08 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Oct 4, 4:45 am, Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to define a table with a "name", a "start_date" and a > "stop_date" columns, with a constraint that ensures that 2 records with > ovelapping dates don't share the same name. Is there a way to define > such a constraint? CREAT

Re: [SQL] Having difficulty writing a "best-fit" query..

2007-10-16 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 10/16/07, Jamie Tufnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking a subset of all my genres, and I want to get ONE row for each > movie in the subset alongside its most appropriate genre (whichever has the > highest relevance). In other words, the best fit. You didn't provide the expected output

Re: [SQL] puzzled by SELECT INTO

2007-10-30 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 10/30/07, Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wreird enough to me, need some advice plz! CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION READ_WORDS(BIGINT, INT[]) RETURNS VARCHAR AS $$ DECLARE RETURNVALUE VARCHAR; BEGIN SELECT ARRAY_TO_STRING(ARRAY( SELECT WORD FROM WORDS WHERE PAGE_

Re: [SQL] Aggregate question (Sum)

2007-11-19 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Nov 19, 2007 3:46 PM, Luiz K. Matsumura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone can give me some hint I will apreciate. This is more of a normalization problem. See: http://www.deeptraining.com/litwin/dbdesign/FundamentalsOfRelationalDatabaseDesign.aspx and lookup Third Normal Form. You have

Re: [SQL] PL argument max size, and doubt

2007-11-21 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Nov 21, 2007 8:23 AM, Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (BTW, which it that limit if it exists?). "In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB." See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/datatype-character.html > So I made the function to

Re: [SQL] SQL state: 22P02

2007-11-22 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Nov 22, 2007 11:24 AM, Franklin Haut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >num return > -- >0 0 >null false >1212 >a false >12ab false > > it´s possible get these results ? Try: SELECT NUM , CASE WHEN TRIM(NUM) ~

Re: [SQL] Query design assistance - getting daily totals

2007-12-12 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Dec 12, 2007 1:39 AM, Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a financial application which needs to work using a concept of > 'financial periods' which may not necessarily correspond to calendar > months and it's much easier to manage in this way than it is to merge it > all together usi

Re: [SQL] passing a multiple join to a function?

2007-12-17 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 12/17/07, Louis-David Mitterrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got this ugly case statement that I'd like to hide in a function: Why don't you hide the entire query in a VIEW? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet,