[SQL] Is it possible to "truncate" a LOB?

2000-06-08 Thread Stephen Crawley
[I asked this question on the "interfaces" list, but nobody answered ...] Suppose that I have created a LOB, written a bunch of data to it, and committed. Is it now possible to rewrite the LOB to contain a lesser amount of data? In other words can I do the equivalent of UNIX open(..., O_WRONLY

[SQL] Help with inserts into Views

2000-06-08 Thread Brian Powell
Greetings, I am having difficulty creating a way to insert into a view which joins multiple tables (specifically a view which joins multiple records from a single table to a record in another table). Please see the enclosed simple example for how I am currently inserting (updating, etc.) on view

[SQL] Sum of datetime différence...

2000-06-08 Thread Ed
Hi, I would like to know what is the easiest way to add multiple difference of datetime but show the result in hour and minute something like : table foo: start datetime end datetime I would like to do : select sum(end-start) from foo; but it gives me 3 days 12 hours 23 minutes...etc I wo

Re: [SQL] Problem with subquery in CHECK constraint.

2000-06-08 Thread Stephan Szabo
> CONSTRAINT TYPE_CD_OK CHECK ( > EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM XREF WHERE > XREF_GROUP = 'CUST_TYPE' AND > XREF_CD = TYPE_CD) > ) > > > > There seems to be more serious problems. > > 1) The constraint is not only for the defined table but also for referenced > > tables in the subquery. > > I don't un

RE: [SQL] Problem with subquery in CHECK constraint.

2000-06-08 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Niall Smart > > > CONSTRAINT TYPE_CD_OK CHECK ( > EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM XREF WHERE > XREF_GROUP = 'CUST_TYPE' AND > XREF_CD = TYPE_CD) > ) > > > >

[SQL] trigger/refint question..

2000-06-08 Thread Michael J Schout
Hi. Im trying to implement a referential integrity check that I suspect there is a much better way to do that what I have done. Basically what I have is a "order" table and a "order items" table. I would like to make it so that if all items are removed from the order, then the corresponding "or

[SQL] SQL 'Case When...'

2000-06-08 Thread Bernie Huang
Hi, Don't know if it's possible, but how do I make the following SQL statments right? table --- name int4 attribute text[] select attribute[1] from table case when attribute[1]='yes' then select attribute[2] from table else select attribute[3] from table; Basically, I want to c

Re: [SQL] ORDER BY in definition of views

2000-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Niall Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if this is on the radar for 7.1? 7.2 ... regards, tom lane

Re: [SQL] ORDER BY in definition of views

2000-06-08 Thread Niall Smart
Michael Ansley wrote: > > Would there be a particular reason to do this? > I like to define views for lookups (i.e. job titles, departments, accounts, whatever). It would be nice if I could just do a select * from whatever_vw instead of having to remember to put the order by whatever_name cla

RE: [SQL] ORDER BY in definition of views

2000-06-08 Thread Michael Ansley
Title: RE: [SQL] ORDER BY in definition of views Would there be a particular reason to do this? MikeA >>   -Original Message- >>   From: Niall Smart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>   Sent: 08 June 2000 14:47 >>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>   Subject: [SQL] ORDER BY in definition of vi

[SQL] ORDER BY in definition of views

2000-06-08 Thread Niall Smart
Guys, Does anyone know if this is on the radar for 7.1? Niall -- Niall Smart email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (087) 8052390

Re: [SQL]

2000-06-08 Thread Jan Wieck
Michael Fork wrote: > CREATE INDEX idx_radacct_1 ON radacct (username,acctstatustype,tstamp); > CREATE INDEX idx_radacct_2 ON radacct (username,acctstatustype); > CREATE INDEX idx_radacct_3 ON radacct (username,tstamp); > CREATE INDEX idx_radacct_4 ON radacct (acctstatustype,tstamp); > CREATE INDE

Re: [SQL] Problem with subquery in CHECK constraint.

2000-06-08 Thread Niall Smart
CONSTRAINT TYPE_CD_OK CHECK ( EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM XREF WHERE XREF_GROUP = 'CUST_TYPE' AND XREF_CD = TYPE_CD) ) > There seems to be more serious problems. > 1) The constraint is not only for the defined table but also for referenced >

Re: [SQL] Fetch an element in an array

2000-06-08 Thread omid omoomi
$row = pg_fetch_array($exec, 1); echo $row['col2']; Regards Omid Omoomi >From: Bernie Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: PGSQL-SQL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [SQL] Fetch an element in an array >Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 17:21:52 -0700 > >Hi, > >This is more of a PHP problem, but I wish if someone k