[SQL] How can we match a condition among 2 diff. tables?

2001-07-12 Thread bhuvansql
Hi, Consider the below... table 'employee' with unique 'emp_id', table 'salesorder' with 'emp_id' and unique 'sales_id' Remember, both tables include some more different fields. Now, i need to get the details of all employees who did receive NONE of the salesorders. ie.. i wi

Re: [SQL] Referencing a view?

2001-07-12 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, James Orr wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyway that you can reference a column in a view for > referential integrity? The problem is with the unique thing, > obviously I can't create a unique index on a view. Here is what I > have: Not right now, and actually you still wouldn

[SQL] Referencing a view?

2001-07-12 Thread James Orr
Hi,   Is there anyway that you can reference a column in a view for referential integrity?  The problem is with the unique thing, obviously I can't create a unique index on a view.  Here is what I have: CREATE SEQUENCE "addresses_id_seq" start 1 increment 1 maxvalue 2147483647 minvalue 1  c

Re: [SQL] Functions performed on intervals

2001-07-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Jimmie, > Thanks for your response, You're welcome. > What you are saying here is that I will indeed need an external timed > event > (cron) to update a field/history table of some fashion, correct? > This is my > main question. Yes. Absolutely you will. Unless, of course, your users are alr

RE: [SQL] Functions performed on intervals

2001-07-12 Thread Jimmie Fulton
Thanks for your response, > Actually, I can think of at least 3 different approaches. > What's "best" > depends on: > > 1) your control over the data structure (e.g. can you add an > "employee_history" table?) > 2) What changes to leave time calcualtions do you want to be > time-bound, > That

Re: [SQL] Functions performed on intervals

2001-07-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Jimmie, > I hope this is not the wrong list for this type of question... Nope. You're come to *exactly* the right list. > > I'm about to start development on a small app to track employee leave > and > vacation time. Based on a simple formula, each employee gets x > number of > days at the e

[SQL] Functions performed on intervals

2001-07-12 Thread Jimmie Fulton
I hope this is not the wrong list for this type of question... I'm about to start development on a small app to track employee leave and vacation time. Based on a simple formula, each employee gets x number of days at the end of each month. x is a function of time-in-service and employee type:

Re: [SQL] C Functions

2001-07-12 Thread Patrik Kudo
I've never used functions in postgres, but the line *resultp = *testo; looks wrong to me. Shouldn't it be strcpy(resultp, testo); ? Regards, Patrik Kudo ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol Känns det oklart? Fråga på! On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Fernando Eduardo B.

[SQL] C Functions

2001-07-12 Thread Fernando Eduardo B. L. e Carvalho
#include #include char *fernando(char *texto) { char *resultp = palloc(strlen(texto)+5); *resultp = *texto; strcat(resultp," mais"); return resultp; } gcc -shared fernando.c -o fernando.so CREATE FUNCTION fernando (bpchar) RETURNS bpchar AS '/u/src/tef/fer

[SQL] shared memory size

2001-07-12 Thread Wei Weng
Will increasing kernel shared memory size (in linux by doing "echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmall; echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax) help with the speed of a complicated query with a large return set? (average 2 or more entries in return) Thanks -- Wei Weng Network Software Engin

[SQL] Turn off flushing after each write

2001-07-12 Thread Wei Weng
How can I control that? Where is the setting I can tweak? I checked the doc at http://www.archonet.com/pgdocs/tweak-perf.html. Couldn't find any reference to it. Thanks! -- Wei Weng Network Software Engineer KenCast Inc. ---(end of broadcast)-