Re: [SQL] JDBC Performance

2000-10-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Mr. May, For discussions of JDBC, please subscribe to the pgsql-interfaces list. You will find many JDBC users on that list. -Josh Berkus P.S. PGSQL folks, is there any way we can clarify this on the web page? The JDBC users seem to keep ending

[SQL] Re: many-to-many mapping

2000-10-16 Thread K Parker
Am I the only one who's nervous about these two tables referencing each other like this? I would have a concern that this is being imposed, perhaps, by some external format that the data arrives in, and that a decently normalized design will have a simple all-key table containing nothing but seria

[SQL] Formatting US phone numbers, was Variable-length Types

2000-10-16 Thread KuroiNeko
Josh and anyone interested, I've slightly changed the function. C source of a standalone program is available from http://www.primechoice.com/hum/uspn.c Comments welcome. Thx Ed PS Lemme know if you need a function, callable from PGSQL -- Well I tried to be meek And I have tr

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, Thank you very much. Now I know to use serial and not oid. I hope I got the correct message. Thanks, Indraneel On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Josh Berkus wrote: > Please reference two things: > > 1. Look in the list archives for the last 4 weeks and you will read a > long discussion on the risks/li

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread KuroiNeko
> > I am facing a problem in mapping between two tables containing unique > > entries > > > Then you need a third table T12 with columns x and y, that contains one > row for each > mapping of a x(i) with a y(j). That's it. Normalize it. Relation T12 may also require the third field, `direct

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Josh Berkus
Mr. Majumdar, > > Sorry for splitting mails. Is there some way of using the oid of each > row to do the mapping instead of creating two more columns of integers? > The third table can then be like this: > > create table T3( > T1 oid, > T2 oid > ); Please reference two

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Sorry for splitting mails. Is there some way of using the oid of each row to do the mapping instead of creating two more columns of integers? The third table can then be like this: create table T3( T1 oid, T2 oid ); also how can I find out the oid of a particular row? a

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Thanks, I too came to the same conclusion (due to lack of persistence/patience). Thanks, Indraneel On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerhard Dieringer wrote: > I don't know what type of data your columns x and y contain. If they are, > for example, of type text and contain long strings, then it would be bet

[SQL] JDBC Performance

2000-10-16 Thread Craig May
Hi, I've been using the postgresql.Driver with JDBC for some time. Initially, I was passing Statement objects through functions to each of the Classes. This was working beautifully. I have since adapted my application to support MS SQL Server. SQL Server doesn't allow a statement object to

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Gerhard Dieringer
>>> Indraneel Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.10.2000 22.13 Uhr >>> > Yeah you understand the problem perfectly. The third table will definitely > contain unique entries if you take both x and y simultaneously. I wanted > some way of mapping where I would not need to repeat individual values of >

Re: Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Yeah you understand the problem perfectly. The third table will definitely contain unique entries if you take both x and y simultaneously. I wanted some way of mapping where I would not need to repeat individual values of x and y. I am not from a maths background and have absolutely no idea of dat

Antw: [SQL] many-many mapping between unique tables

2000-10-16 Thread Gerhard Dieringer
>>> Indraneel Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.10.2000 20.11 Uhr >>> > Hi, > > I am facing a problem in mapping between two tables containing unique > entries > > T1T2 > _ > | x1 | | y1 | > | x2 | | y2 | > | x3 | | y3 | > -