On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:41:47PM -0400, Neal Lindsay wrote:
I think that the subject line explains what I am trying to do. How can I
create a stored function (in SQL, if that matters) that a user can call to
update data in a table to which they normally only have read access?
By using a
If I have a set of tables and I set their primary keys all to the same
sequence, as in
create sequence common_seq;
create table alpha (
ID integer primary key default nextval('common_seq),
other_field text
);
create table beta (
ID integer primary key
Is there any way to tell where postgres is looking for it's config file,
or to tell it where to look? I compiled the 7.1RC4 source tarball with
--prefix=/usr/local (and using stow to keep things tidy in /usr/local)
but it is entirely ignoring the postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf files.
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Bruce
I discover that if a function is passed a NULL parameter then it simply
doesn't operate and a NULL value is returned. Is there *any* way round
that? It makes life incredibly complicated.
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Bruce
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:40:27AM -0300, Tulio Oliveira wrote:
But the RAISE EXCEPTION don't accept variables, only a CONTANT STRING.
Nor strigs concatenation are supported
You can add variables to the string, like this:
RAISE EXCEPTION "Record % has same name as record %",
Is there a Postgresql function reference somewhere? I can't find it in
the documentation and I'm not getting far without it.
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Bruce
Is there a function reference for Postgresql anywhere? I can't find one
in the standard documentation.
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Bruce
If I wanted to create a table in such a way that the default value of
one column is the value of another column (or the oid value), is there
a way to do that in the CREATE TABLE statement (with the DEFAULT
keyword, I'd imagine)? Or would I need to create a trigger?
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Bruce
