Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and this is the combined statement: UPDATE temp_gc SET gc_rank = ranking.rank FROM ( SELECT *, ranking(r1.gc_gesamtpunkte, r1.gc_gesamtsiege) AS rank FROM ( SELECT mg_name,

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-14 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 15:35 schrieb Tom Lane: Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this way it works: CREATE TEMP TABLE ranking AS *Q*; EXECUTE 'UPDATE temp_gc SET gc_rank = ranking.rank FROM ranking WHERE temp_gc.mg_name = ranking.mg_name;'; and this way it doesn't:

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-13 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 00:03 schrieb Tom Lane: Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a guess, what happens here: The order of the subselect statement is dropped by the optimizer because the optimizer doesn't see the side-effect of the ranking function. That guess is

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this way it works: CREATE TEMP TABLE ranking AS *Q*; EXECUTE 'UPDATE temp_gc SET gc_rank = ranking.rank FROM ranking WHERE temp_gc.mg_name = ranking.mg_name;'; and this way it doesn't: UPDATE temp_gc SET gc_rank = ranking.rank FROM (*Q*) ranking

[GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-12 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, in postgresql you have several possibilites to get the rank of items. A thread earlier this year shows correlated subqueries (not very performant) and other tricks and techniques to solve the ranking problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-05/msg00157.php The

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-12 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a guess, what happens here: The order of the subselect statement is dropped by the optimizer because the optimizer doesn't see the side-effect of the ranking function. That guess is wrong. I think the problem is that you are trying to update