Re: [SQL] please help

2001-04-08 Thread Cedar Cox
It would be somewhat (very) useful to have something like this. We were toying with the idea of making some sort of system to figure out if a table is locked or not. In the end we decided to go with executing this asynchronously and after a given timeout ask the user if they would like to wait

Re: [SQL] Double-nesting quotes?

2001-04-08 Thread Cedar Cox
Carefully. :) Try: where_string := ''WHERE client_name ~* '' || s_client || ; (I think I got that right.) The way I do it is to write it first as if I'm not inside a function and not double my single quotes. After I'm done, go back and double all of them.. you're on you own if

Re: [SQL] Need help with EXECUTE function

2001-04-08 Thread Cedar Cox
Attached is the (I think) corrected version.. If you do like I said and cut the number in half you see fairly quickly why it didn't work. I'm sending yours back so you can easily run a diff to see what I did. Let me know if this (attached "cedars") works. -Cedar On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Josh Berk

Re: [SQL] Casting numeric to text

2001-04-08 Thread Cedar Cox
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Hans-Jürgen Schönig writes: > > > Is there any possibility to cast numeric to text in Postgres 7.0.3? > > > > shop=# select cast(price as text) from products; > > ERROR: Cannot cast type 'numeric' to 'text' > > Use the to_char() function. When w

Re: [SQL] open and closed paths ...

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Hans-Jürgen Schönig writes: > I am using PostgreSQL 7.0.3. I have tried the isopen() function but it > doesn't seem to work (or it is not fully implemented yet). > In my opinion the third record is a closed path but the isopen() > functions return f. For no good reason apart from ancient traditi

[SQL] open and closed paths ...

2001-04-08 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
I am using PostgreSQL 7.0.3. I have tried the isopen() function but it doesn't seem to work (or it is not fully implemented yet). In my opinion the third record is a closed path but the isopen() functions return f. Have I done something wrong, have I got something wrong or is it a bug? Hans

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [SQL] Permissons on database

2001-04-08 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:40:44PM -0500, Roland Roberts wrote: > > "bk" == Boulat Khakimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bk> How do I grant permissions on everything in the selected > bk> databes? > > bk> GRANT doesnt take as on object database name nor does it > bk> accept

Re: [SQL] Casting numeric to text

2001-04-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Hans-Jürgen Schönig writes: > Is there any possibility to cast numeric to text in Postgres 7.0.3? > > shop=# select cast(price as text) from products; > ERROR: Cannot cast type 'numeric' to 'text' Use the to_char() function. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter

[SQL] Re: Maybe a Bug, maybe bad SQL

2001-04-08 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:49:41AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Note also that it's a mailing list cultural thing: many lists operate > > in a 'post only to the list' mode. Those of us on the pgsql lists do the > > 'list and person' thing, in response to direct questions, for the reasons > > Br

[SQL] Re: Can anyone explain how this works?

2001-04-08 Thread Joel Burton
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I recently posted this same question a few weeks back but lost the reply > someone kindly sent. The question again how exactly does this query work: > > it will return all attributes and respective data types of a given table': > > select