Re: [GENERAL] sql script confusion

2004-09-29 Thread Richard Huxton
Sim Zacks wrote: Do I need to use a specific language in a function to do this or does it work as native SQL, as it would in T-SQL? You need to use a specific language. What I would like to do is something like - (pseudo code) declare cursor for select relname from pg_statio_user_sequences open cur

[GENERAL] sql script confusion

2004-09-29 Thread Sim Zacks
I am in the process of testing PostGreSQL for our sales and product database and I am a little confused about SQL scripting and various available languages. (My background is mostly MSSQL Server). I am using the PGAdmin tool and I would like to write a script to update all sequences to the current

Re: [GENERAL] SQL script

2004-04-15 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > good day toall.. > imm running postgreSQL on linux. > my main goal is to create a script that will dump a data from our server > too my local PC. the content of the script would be execute sql command > in one shot: 1. dump data > 2. upd

[GENERAL] SQL script

2004-04-15 Thread vickr1z
good day toall.. imm running postgreSQL on linux. my main goal is to create a script that will dump a data from our server too my local PC. the content of the script would be execute sql command in one shot: 1. dump data 2. update and insert some rows to selected table. how can i accommplish th

[GENERAL] SQL Script

2001-03-31 Thread Kevin Willems
I have written the following function but when I try to run it, I get Error: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "". As you can see, there is no instance of "" in my function. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? CREATE FUNCTION dropifexists(text) RETURNS text AS 'DECLARE numcou