[SQL] how many JOINs?

2004-11-27 Thread Konstantin Danilov
Hello List!
Do you know how many times can JOIN be used in a query? How many JOINs does 
PostgreSQL support in ONE query?

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Re: [SQL] Type Inheritance

2004-11-27 Thread Andrew Thorley
hi tom thanks for reply.

im trying to provide inheritance for data types (domains), not tables. i will 
look into the syntax associated with domains as data types does not include an 
inheritance function (or so i think).

regards andy.


- Original Message -
From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andrew Thorley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Type Inheritance 
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:14:07 -0500

> 
> "Andrew Thorley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does anyone know how to implement type inheritance in postgresql? in oracle 
> > you just use the word UNDER in ur code i.e:
> > CREATE TYPE test2_UDT UNDER test1_UDT AS (abc INT);
> 
> If you had said what this *does*, we might be better able to help.
> 
> But take a look at CREATE DOMAIN, as well as the INHERITS and LIKE
> options in CREATE TABLE.  Some part of that might be close to what
> you are looking for.
> 
>   regards, tom lane
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Re: [SQL] Type Inheritance

2004-11-27 Thread Andrew Thorley
"If you had said what this *does*, we might be better able to help"

basically i have a series of types (or data types), of which one is the root 
and each of the other types appear under the root as in 
generalisation/specialisation style, inheriting the above types attributes etc. 
this is what im trying to achieve, although at present, to no avail :(


- Original Message -
From: "Andrew Thorley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Type Inheritance
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:04:55 +0800

> 
> hi tom thanks for reply.
> 
> im trying to provide inheritance for data types (domains), not tables. i will 
> look into the syntax associated with domains as data types does not include 
> an inheritance function (or so i think).
> 
> regards andy.
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Andrew Thorley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Type Inheritance 
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:14:07 -0500
> 
> > 
> > "Andrew Thorley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Does anyone know how to implement type inheritance in postgresql? in 
> > > oracle you just use the word UNDER in ur code i.e:
> >

 > CREATE TYPE test2_UDT UNDER test1_UDT AS (abc INT);
> > 
> > If you had said what this *does*, we might be better able to help.
> > 
> > But take a look at CREATE DOMAIN, as well as the INHERITS and LIKE
> > options in CREATE TABLE.  Some part of that might be close to what
> > you are looking for.
> > 
> > regards, tom lane
> > 
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Re: [SQL] Querying a list field against another list

2004-11-27 Thread m
Try this:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION csv_matches(TEXT, TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS
$$
DECLARE
-- $1 is the field text, $2 is the list of ints to try and match.
   m TEXT;
   f TEXT;
   i INTEGER := 1;
   j INTEGER;
BEGIN
   IF $1 IS NULL THEN
   RETURN 'f';
   ELSIF $2 IS NULL THEN
   RETURN 'f';
   END IF;
   LOOP
   m := split_part($2, ',', i);
   IF m LIKE '' THEN
   RETURN 'f';
   END IF;
   j := 1;
   LOOP
   f := split_part($1, ',', j);
   IF f LIKE '' THEN
   EXIT;
   END IF;
   IF f LIKE m THEN
   RETURN 't';
   END IF;
   j := j + 1;
   END LOOP;
   i = i + 1;
   END LOOP;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
Then you can do "select * from foo where csv_matches(da_list, '1,4');"
-Mark.
Aarni Ruuhimäki wrote:
Hi,
I tried to mail this to the novice list I believe it was rejected:
 

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So here's my question.
Hi people,
This is not quite a pg question, but any suggestions are most welcome.
How can one query a list of values against a db field that contains a list of
values ?
Table foo
foo_id | foo_name | da_list
--
1 | x | 1,2,3,4,5
2 | y | 1,4,5
3 | z | 4,5,11
4 | xyz | 14,15,33
As a result from another query I have parameter bar = '1,4' and want to find
all rows from foo where da_list contains '1' or '4'. So loop over bar to loop
over da_list in foo ?
My humble thanks,
Aarni
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[SQL] update/insert data

2004-11-27 Thread Keith Worthington
Hi All,

I have two tables in different schemas.  The first table in the data_transfer
schema is loaded with a COPY command.  I need to transfer the data to the
second schema inserting new records and updating existing records.  What is
the best way to achieve this functionality?

Kind Regards,
Keith

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