[SQL] select

2003-10-14 Thread roberto
Dear friends, I have this table table work{ day date, hour integer, } select * from work; date | text --- 1-1-20031 1-1-20031 2-1-20035 3-1-200310 5-1-200315 how can i obtain this? date |text --- 1-1-20032 2-1-20035 3-1-2003

[SQL] Creating an aggregate function

2000-09-09 Thread Roberto Mello
y. Anybody has any ideas or worked with CREATE AGGREGATE before? Sorry about the long email and TIA. -Roberto Mello -- Roberto Mello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GNU/Linux Reg.User #96240 Computer Science - Utah State University USU Free Software and GNU/Linux Club, President http://fslc.usu.edu - http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto

[SQL] Isolation and Concurrency in PG functions?

2000-09-10 Thread Roberto Mello
cause transactions are not supported in functions (anybody knows when will this be around?). Thanks, -Roberto Mello -- Roberto Mello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GNU/Linux Reg.User #96240 Computer Science - Utah State University USU Free Software and GNU/Linux Club, President http://fslc.usu.edu -

[SQL] UNION in views

2000-11-06 Thread Roberto Mello
you have a time frame for the release of 7.1b? Any additional comments on 7.1 features,drawbacks, caveats, etc, are appreciated. Thanks, -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Soft

Re: [SQL] Requests for Development

2000-11-09 Thread Roberto Mello
s/procedures. Thanks for the great work PG team. -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club http://fslc.usu.edu My home page - http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto

Re: [SQL] Using Array-Values in subselect

2000-11-14 Thread Roberto Mello
enacs.org and arsdigita.com's web/db web bulletin boards, you'll find several hits. -Roberto Mello P.S: I know this doesn't directly anwser your question, but points you to where to find the answer for yourself. -- Computer ScienceUtah State Universit

Re: [SQL] Requests for Development

2000-11-17 Thread Roberto Mello
les on the documentation. I'd be glad to finish it up, add more things to it and then put it somewhere for review, comments, suggestions, additions, etc. Part of this document will be on how to port Oracle PL/SQL to Postgres' PL/SQL and PL/Tcl. - Roberto Mello ---

Re: [SQL] how many rows? [was Re: fetching rows]]

2000-11-17 Thread Roberto Mello
set rowcount [ns_pg ntuples] in my Tcl code and there it is. The driver is available at either http://www.aolserver.com or http://www.openacs.org (the latter has a more elaborate version of the driver). -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State

Re: [SQL] Persistent Connects (pg_pconnect)

2000-11-22 Thread Roberto Mello
ty.com (with mere 32 K hits per second). AOLserver also has a built-in database abstraction layer and Tcl interpreter (with the option of caching compiled code of scripts), and a comprehensive API for building massively scalable dynamic websites. More info at http://www.

Re: [SQL] a script that queries database periodically

2000-11-27 Thread Roberto Mello
AOL) has had such facility (and many many others for db-backed websites) since 1995. ns_schedule_proc. http://www.aolserver.com -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software &

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [SQL] a script that queries database periodically

2000-11-27 Thread Roberto Mello
ad for a different list :) Because PHP is supposed to solve web development problems. And this is one of them. It's very useful. -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux

Re: [SQL] OpenACS

2000-11-24 Thread Roberto Mello
lipped, and they're not found unless someone really uses the module, finds and reports them. OpenACS 4 is what we are actively working on right now. It's a much better piece of software than the 3.x series, but it does not have all the modules that 3.x series does, but we

Re: [SQL] String function page incorrect?

2000-11-30 Thread Roberto Mello
s "position". But neither one > works! > > bf2=# select position('high', 'ig'); > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "," You need SELECT position('ig' in 'high'); lbn=# select position('ig' in 'high

Re: [SQL] I can be a BUG?

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Mello
r deleted it. Is that normal/bug/feature? Why? -Roberto P.S: It's nice to see some Brazilians on the list :) I am from Brazil too. I hope Conectiva is promoting PostgreSQL down there. -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory

Re: [SQL] I can be a BUG?

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Mello
ches your username. Bit I did specify my database name. -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club http://fslc.usu.edu My home page - http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto

Re: [SQL] Postgres closing the connection too fast with php4+apache

2000-12-13 Thread Roberto Mello
Resource id #45 Pardon me, bout wouldn't this be more appropriate on a PHP list? -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club http://fslc.usu

Re: [SQL] postgres

2000-12-13 Thread Roberto Mello
e me, but maybe we could be help the PostgreSQL team by kindly directing people to their corporate website, so they can purchase services that are going to fund the project. As long as the project is happy I am happy. Just some thoughts. -Roberto -- C

[SQL] Cannot CREATE INDEX that contains a function

2001-01-25 Thread Roberto Bertolusso
IQUE INDEX test_index ON test (lower(username)); ERROR: DefineIndex: function 'lower(varchar)' does not exist The same happens using upper, initcap,... Thanks Roberto Bertolusso

Re: [SQL] Four Odd Questions

2001-02-02 Thread Roberto Mello
xample. http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/ -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club http://fslc.usu.edu My home page - http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto

[SQL] Contributing Documentation to PG

2001-02-11 Thread Roberto Mello
n the current docs. Where can I find it? I know I can just use the Makefiles with a little tweaking, but I am wondering if I am missing something here. Thanks, -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory

[SQL] PL/PgSQL FOR syntax

2001-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
do I access the rows within the for loop? row.field? Thanks, -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club http://fslc.usu.edu My home page - http:

Re: [SQL] Help Retrieving Latest Record

2001-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
- 2 | Apple | 2000-12-05 00:00:00-07 (1 row) Look at the documentation for the ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses on the PG docs. -Roberto -- Computer ScienceUtah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory Web Developer USU Free So

[SQL] PL/SQL-to-PL/PgSQL-HOWTO beta Available

2001-02-17 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, I finished the beta version of my PL/SQL-to-PL/PgSQL-HOWTO last night and put it in http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto . It explains basic differences between Oracle's PL/SQL and PG's PL/PgSQL and how to port apps from one to the other. It also i

[SQL] Passing a table to PL/pgSQL

2001-02-24 Thread Roberto Mello
meter that's a member of a table (e.g. users.user_id%TYPE)? - Can a parameter have a default value? Thanks, -Roberto Mello P.S: I searched lots in the PG search engine, but couldn't find anything. -- Computer ScienceUtah S

Re: [SQL] quotes in pl/pgsql

2001-03-07 Thread Roberto Mello
on quotes on the PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO. It's called "Quote me on that" and mentions several cases on quote usage in PL/pgSQL and what to do about it. http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux

[SQL] Contribute to the PL/pgSQL CookBook !!

2001-03-15 Thread Roberto Mello
Oh, did I mention that you get your own "PostgreSQL Powered" button when you contribute a function/trigger? :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.br

[SQL] Contribute to the PL/pgSQL CookBook !!

2001-03-15 Thread Roberto Mello
t/postgres Oh, did I mention that you get your own "PostgreSQL Powered" button when you contribute a function/trigger? :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.br

Re: [SQL] drop table in PL/pgSQL

2001-03-23 Thread Roberto Mello
u can't roll back. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Web Developer "Carrier detected." Go to the dentist...

Re: [SQL] Help

2001-03-25 Thread Roberto Mello
s jsp files and PostgreSQL does not have a Java virtual machine. But you can use PostgreSQL from your Java program by using JDBC. Look for Jakarta/Tomcat for an open source servlet container. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Rober

Re: [SQL] Oracle -> Postgresql migration

2001-03-28 Thread Roberto Mello
w to change some Oracle'isms (e.g. nvl, decode, etc.) to PostgreSQL, sticking to the standard where possible. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http:/

Re: [SQL] Calling functions inside a function: behavior

2001-04-02 Thread Roberto Mello
et of the functions here? -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer TOFU -> Text Oben Fullquote Unten -

Re: [SQL] Sorting and then...

2001-04-09 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:22:52PM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > And I want to get the names of the largest 10 "id"s. How can I do that in > sql? What do you mean by "largest"? Largest id? "largest" text string? If it's the id you can do:

[SQL] Timezone conversion

2001-04-11 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi, How can I do timezone conversions in PG? I looked on the docs and couldn't find how. I want to find the current time in another timezone. Thanks, -Roberto P.S: This type of function would be excellent on the cookbook (www.brasileiro.net). -- +|

Re: [SQL] Function overlaps_interval

2001-04-12 Thread Roberto Mello
l > of time for which the two datetime ranges overlap. > > Roberto, please include this in your online PL/pgSQL function library. Done! Thanks Josh! Date/Time manipulation functions are now our most popular category. How about you? Do you have a (SQL|PL/pgSQL|

[SQL] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
at or anything. I've looked. Thanks, -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer

Re: [SQL] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:00:45AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > If I try to connect through psql, it asks me for the password again. > It looks like it's using password auth instead of ident auth, which used > to be the default. > There's nothing pointed in the

Re: [SQL] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
l for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. :) Remarkably accurate! -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software &

Re: [SQL] Using Random Sequence as Key

2001-04-16 Thread Roberto Mello
use a howto or Bernardo, Do you really need the keys to be random numbers? Can't the keys be sequential numbers, like 1,2,3,4...? That'd be a lot easier to make unique, and as far as the user is concerned, it'll be random for him/her. -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] Re: DB porting questions...

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Mello
handles properly doing auto > increments with the SERIAL type, and does the set/enum conversions? What do you mean by "propely doing auto increments"? What's the problem you are having? -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Softwar

Re: [SQL] Where are the 7.1 RPM's?

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Mello
e then. > > Do anyone know where the 7.1 RPM's are so that I can install them? Have you tried postgresql.org? I am sure you can find it there :) It looks like it's bogged down with downloads now. You can get it from our mirror at http://fslc.usu.edu/downloads/pub

Re: [SQL] maybe Offtopic : PostgreSQL & PHP ?

2001-04-18 Thread Roberto Mello
penNSD world -- where ALL connections are persistant, pooled, and dstributed among threads -- I'd be interested in knowing the quirks of persistant connections in PHP. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Scie

Re: [SQL] maybe Offtopic : PostgreSQL & PHP ?

2001-04-18 Thread Roberto Mello
tch (1994) so I hope this won't be much of an issue (but then PHP 4 still has threading problems AFAIK). Not using persistant connections is just too slow for me. It's instantaneous for AOLserver to generate a page, when the same page with the connection overhead in PHP takes A L

Re: [SQL] Postgresql to Access

2001-04-19 Thread Roberto Mello
hat should I do. Look at the article an http://techdocs.postgresql.org -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Develope

Re: [SQL] plpgsql

2001-04-20 Thread Roberto Mello
;s to answer your questions that we take the time to write docs in the first place :) Short answer: everything in your function is executed in one transaction. BEGIN and END in PL/pgSQL are NOT the same as in the transaction semantics. -Roberto -- +| http://fsl

Re: [SQL] How to encode and decode password in pgsql !!

2001-05-03 Thread Roberto Mello
I usually do the encrypting in the client application (AOLserver, PHP), store the encrypted password, when the user comes back and enters the password I encrypt it and test it against what's on the database. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux

Re: [SQL] Information passing, Perl, Unix and Postgresql Database

2001-05-09 Thread Roberto Mello
t be able to do it with subqueries. PostgreSQL 7.1 has subqueries in the FROM clause as well al regular sebqueries. Read the subqueries chapter of Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL book for more info, or give us more information. The book is at http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

Re: [SQL] Re: Escape Quotes

2001-05-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:41PM +1000, Keith Gray wrote: > > The problem is in ipqsql... What the heck is ipsql?? -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.bras

[SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Problems in porting from Oracle to Postgres

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
Again, you're giving way too little detail. What error? What are you trying? Without this, it's very hard to help. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://w

Re: [SQL] Postgres function library

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
tions there. The more we have, the better. I am going to improve the site in a few days. http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileir

Re: [SQL] Is this possible?

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:16:56PM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > I have a table that has a serial for primary key. Is it possible to get > the new available primary key right after I insert a row of new entry? Yeah. Se the documentation on triggers. -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] any proper benchmark scripts?

2001-04-19 Thread Roberto Mello
ich one will survive the fall? Comparing MySQL to PostgreSQL, Oracle or any other real database is like comparing DOS with UNIX, or Emacs with an orange. -Roberto Mello -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Compute

Re: [SQL] Exp/Imp Problems...

2001-05-16 Thread Roberto Mello
the PostgreSQL database. For Oracle support you should look for an Oracle forum/list or call their support. http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard (web/db forum) has lots of Oracle users. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto

Re: [SQL] Give me a suggestion 'START WITH .. CONNECT BY'.

2001-05-16 Thread Roberto Mello
n use to do this. The OpenACS folks used that approach to port Oracle's CONNECT BY to PostgreSQL, so you could probably ask them over at openacs.org/bboard. -Roberto P.S: I plan to add this to my expanded "Porting From Oracle" chapter of the documentation. -- +| htt

[SQL] Large Objects Documentation

2001-05-25 Thread Roberto Mello
I couldn't find the documentation for dealing with Large Objects on the documentation. Any pointers? The only info I found on Large Objects was on the programming guide, but I'm not looking to write C functions with largo objects. Thanks, -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] PGAccess/pgplsql Blues

2001-06-01 Thread Roberto Mello
ter PGAccess > editing are met with: 'Parse error at or near ""' IIRC, pgaccess does quote-escaping for you, so if you try to write "standard" PL/pgSQL (escaping single quotes), it'll barf this error. Just something to check. -Roberto --

Re: [SQL] php-nuke

2001-06-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:14:38PM +0530, Sharmad Naik wrote: > hi, > I wanted to know that does postgresql database support php-nuke This is a php-nuke question. Head to their website and it should be stated there somewhere. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.e

Re: [SQL] Tutorial : using foreign keys, retrictions etc

2001-06-06 Thread Roberto Mello
or examples of functions, head to http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer

Re: [SQL] PL/PGSQL

2001-06-12 Thread Roberto Mello
om trigger. It is > possible to do this without triggers? A little RTFM'ing wouldn't hurt. Currently you can't return tuples from "regular" PL/pgSQL functions. It heard this functionality will make it in 7.2. -Roberto -- +| http://fs

Re: [SQL] Better Archives?

2001-06-18 Thread Roberto Mello
there anything we can do about this? It seems tailor-made for a > PostgreSQL app ... I volunteer for design/SQL if someone can find a PHP > or Java coder for the interface. I think this has already been done, but I don't know if it has been linked from the man pg.org site. It's

Re: [SQL] About primary keys.

2001-06-19 Thread Roberto Mello
sileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_id=36 -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer TAG

Re: [SQL] Changing PL/pgSQL triggers

2001-06-21 Thread Roberto Mello
ange. Is there an easier way? pgAcess should make it easier. It lets you look at the definition and lets you modify/drop/recreate it. If you're on windows, you might want to look a pgAdmin (available at greatbridge.org). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU

[SQL] PL/TclU

2001-07-06 Thread Roberto Mello
I've heard quite a bit about PL/TclU, but what's the difference between that and regular PL/Tcl?? Thanks, -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |------+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.ne

[SQL] CREATE TYPE function examples

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
INPUT = my_procedure_1, OUTPUT = my_procedure_2); What would the functions my_procedure_1 and my_procedure_2 look like? Thanks, -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net

Re: [SQL] CREATE TYPE function examples

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
t, > hint...) How so? Would you please elaborate? I'm note familiar with the update. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu

Re: [SQL] Group by date_part

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
SQL: > > SELECT date_part('day', date), count(*) > FROM client_order WHERE (date >= '01/05/01' AND date < '01/06/01') AND > status = 'Processing' > GROUP BY date_part('day', date); Didn't look very hard,

Re: [SQL] Re: [INTERFACES] distinguishing different database connections

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:07:35AM -0500, Manika Dey wrote: > > Hi, > Is postgresql database available for WindowsNT platform. Yes. Download CygWin at http://www.cygwin.com and read the documentation in postgresql.org regarding installation on Windows.

Re: [SQL] Get the tables names?

2001-07-20 Thread Roberto Mello
ot; part is to avoid getting the PostgreSQL internal tables in the output. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Develo

[SQL] Converting epoch to timestamp?

2001-07-31 Thread Roberto Mello
I searched the docs for function to convert epoch to timestamps but couldn't find any. Are there any? Thanks, -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |+ Computer Science, Utah State University - http://www.usu.edu

Re: [SQL] Converting epoch to timestamp?

2001-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:28:39AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Hi Roberto - long time no see. Hey Richard. Yeah. Summer classes and summer jobs :-) I have to finish my expanded "Porting From Oracle" thingy. > > richardh=> select '1970-01-01'::date

Re: [SQL] Checking for table existence

2001-09-17 Thread Roberto Mello
You can have psql output its internal queries and that will give you some insight: roberto@brasileiro:~/documents/pictures$ psql -e foobar Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. ... foobar=# \d blah * QUERY * SELECT relhasindex, relkind, relchecks, reltriggers,

Re: [SQL] can't update 'c:\windows'

2001-10-23 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:14:32PM +0800, guard wrote: > dear all > > IF update table set field='c:\windows' > but > > c:\windows -> c:windows Errr. Some context please? My crystal ball is still getting fixed :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU

Re: [SQL] Primary key with oid + name : error, which solution ?

2001-10-31 Thread Roberto Mello
ass Unless it's some OO extension in PostgreSQL that I don't know about, I have never heard of the type "repertory" and "name". I don't think you can use your table name as a data type. BTW, you should also stay away from arrays (IMHO), since they ar

Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL syntax for strings

2001-11-01 Thread Roberto Mello
As the documentation for PL/pgSQL clearly states with several examples, you have to double the quotes in strings> INSERT INTO rtest(xz,yz,xy) VALUES (''(0,2), (1,3)'', ''(1,2), (2,3)'', ''(0,1), (1,2)''); I don't

Re: [SQL] CHECK problem really OK now...

2001-09-24 Thread Roberto Mello
e". Give it for free and you'll > get plenty of it when you need some. I couldn't agree more! -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |+ Computer Science, Utah State University -http://www.usu.edu USU Free Software &a

Re: [SQL] SQL-Programmer tool and field%type support

2001-10-08 Thread Roberto Mello
You can use function overloading if you need the same function to return different types. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.e

Re: [SQL] graphical interface - admin

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:29:27PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > I tried 1.2.4 but didn't found how to configure tora to work > with postgresql. Tora is very nice. I'm using 1.3.5 with PG 7.2 (Debian). I had to compile the PostgreSQL Qt 3 module for it to work. -Rober

Re: [SQL] pl/pgsql capabilities?

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
res/plpgsql-cursors.html -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.edu/ - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer I wonder if Singapore has any c

Re: [SQL] pl/pgsql capabilities?

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
u currently have, as far as I could understand it. I didn't read the procedure very attentively because it's horribly written in all caps, and my eyes started scrambling the letters half way through. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--

Re: [SQL] How do i return a dataset from a stored procedure

2002-07-05 Thread Roberto Mello
achive that effect by returning a cursor in PG 7.2 (the section on returning cursors is ommitted from the current docs in www.postgresql.org/idocs, so you need to look at the developer docs - see www.us.postgresql.org). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Clu

Re: [SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
eresting, more useful, more feature-complete (as far as Relational database servers go), more fun and what you could learn with PostgreSQL you could take to other database servers who are out to be real database servers, not the case with MySQL. AFAIK, MySQL is more common. -Roberto -- +| ht

Re: [SQL] manipulating the database in plsql

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
an. A PL/pgSQL function is already part of the database it belongs to. It doesn't need a handle. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.ed

Re: [SQL] Editor for pgsql

2002-07-22 Thread Roberto Mello
QL installations all the time. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.edu/ - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer Microsoft has been doing a really bad

Re: [SQL] Editor for pgsql

2002-07-22 Thread Roberto Mello
bian.org ("unstable" distribution) and unpacking them (Debian packages are just "ar" packages with extra headers). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ h

Re: [SQL] Scan SQL

2002-07-23 Thread Roberto Mello
enerate the source in delphi, but I > need a sql specification (BNF, EBNF) and I do not know where to find it. You could look at how PostgreSQL does its parsing. The source code is open. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mell

Re: [SQL] RES: [GENERAL] set DateStyle to 'SQL'

2002-07-26 Thread Roberto Mello
likely there are much more variables rather than PGDATA, > PGHOST and PGPORT. > Where can I find them? Perhaps you're looking for http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?runtime-config.html Please trim your replies to the list. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.e

Re: RES: [SQL] RES: [GENERAL] set DateStyle to 'SQL'

2002-07-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:57:12AM -0300, Elielson Fontanezi wrote: > Bom dia Roberto! Bom Dia! :-) > I have just read these documents. > The variables listed in the link below, say about variable that I > cannot > set from a .profile file. > By the way, if I

Re: [SQL] License

2002-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
the code originated in > Postgres. It is even more free than MySQL. It should be mentioned that PostgreSQL has great community support. If you require commercial support, that is provided by several companies, including Pgsql Inc., Red Hat, Aglio, etc. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU F

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Monitoring a Query

2002-09-23 Thread Roberto Mello
ackage called "Developer Support" that shows you (among other things) how long a query took to be executed. Very good to finding out slow-running queries that need to be optimized. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + USU Fre

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Monitoring a Query

2002-09-23 Thread Roberto Mello
ave GUC 'log_duration' which will show query duration. Forgive my ignorance here, but what is GUC? And how would I access the query duration? -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State Universi

Re: [SQL] Stored Procedures

2002-10-01 Thread Roberto Mello
ished through returning a cursor from the function. See the 7.3 documentation to see how to do that (AFAIK, this is not documented in the 7.2 docs, although it does work). In 7.3 you can return true record sets without the use of cursors. Again, see the docs for 7.3 in the developers site. -Roberto

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED RE: [SQL] please help with converting a view in oracle into postgresql readably code

2002-10-02 Thread Roberto Mello
th this > for a number of days now. Argh, that's right, I forgot the ENDs. Ugh! Shame on me. Glad that's working for you now. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University

[SQL] epoch to date

2002-10-03 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, Maybe I missed something obvious, but is there a built-in function to convert epoch to date? I couldn't find it in the documentation for extract and friends. Thanks, -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Gra

Re: [SQL] please help with converting a view in oracle into postgresql readably code

2002-10-01 Thread Roberto Mello
LSE 'void') as order_state FROM events_registrations GROUP BY order_id ) o_states WHERE o_states.order_id = o.order_id; Oracle 9 does support SQL92-compliant CASE WHEN. It's much more clear than using cryptic decode to me. See http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/inde

Re: [SQL] SELECT with INNER data bases

2002-10-10 Thread Roberto Mello
PostgreSQL contrib/ directory. See its documentation. And here goes the same as above, but in Portuguese :) O PostgreSQL não permite isso por padrão. Você pode usar 7.3 e schemas como foi sugerido, ou usar um módulo chamado dblink com 7.2. Esse módulo está no diretório contrib do PostgreSQL. Ve

Re: [SQL] Select table from other database

2002-10-21 Thread Roberto Mello
A? > (something like "SELECT * FROM A.X ...") See the dblink module in the PostgreSQL contrib tree (available via ftp. packages available). -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State

Re: [SQL] Foreign character struggles

2002-10-25 Thread Roberto Mello
rocedure for working with i18n'd characters described in the documentation? I'm looking for something that mentions the specifics of locale interaction and all that. I ask because the sort of question Tim asked is a recurrent one in a portuguese PostgreSQL mailing list I subscribe

Re: [SQL] functions that return a dataset or set of rows

2002-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
7.2 documentation). http://developer.postgresql.org/ -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + Bill Gates made $6.3

Re: [SQL] multiple databases

2002-10-28 Thread Roberto Mello
greSQL, called dblink, that allows it. Look at the contrib tree on the PostgreSQL archives. -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - h

Re: [SQL] CoreReader

2002-10-28 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:32:00PM -0500, John Ragan wrote: > > Does anybody know of CoreReader being run against > PostGresql? > > If so, I would appreciate knowing the results. What's CoreReader? -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http:

[SQL] Time difference without intervals

2002-11-08 Thread Roberto Mello
al? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day" or whatnot. lbn-dev=# select now() - '2002-11-07 7:42'::timestamp; ?column? --- 1 day 02:01:57.987838 (1 row) Thanks, -Roberto -- +|Robert

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