[SQL] Re: performance issue with distance function

2001-07-28 Thread Mark kirkwood
Hi Ryan, There is a bit of a strange way around the distance overhead issue : Create another table with structure like (lat1,long1,zip1,lat2,long2,zip2,distance) and precalculate the distance for each possibility. This means n*(n-1) rows if you have n location rows. You would then include thi

Re: [SQL] nullif BUG???

2001-07-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Er... what were you expecting, exactly? AFAICT, the quoted behavior is correct per the defined behavior of nullif(), cf http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/functions-conditional.html NULLIF(value1, value2) The

Re: [SQL] Who do I make _ not a wildcard?

2001-07-28 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Roy Souther wrote: > In PG the _ is a wildcard that means any singal char. I need to do a search > for the actual _ char and not get back thousands of wrong matches. Is there > and escape char that I could use? This needs to work with PG 7.0.3 & 7.1.2. \\_ should work for

[SQL] Who do I make _ not a wildcard?

2001-07-28 Thread Roy Souther
In PG the _ is a wildcard that means any singal char. I need to do a search for the actual _ char and not get back thousands of wrong matches. Is there and escape char that I could use? This needs to work with PG 7.0.3 & 7.1.2. TIA -- Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01100010 10101110 11000110

[SQL] Re: Get name of columns in a table

2001-07-28 Thread Joel Burton
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] María Elena Hernández wrote: > Is it possible to get thecoluns names of an a table in the database with a sql > query?? "psql -E" will show the SQL commands that psql internally uses to display tables, database, etc. Once in psql, use "\d table_name" to see fie

[SQL] Get name of columns in a table

2001-07-28 Thread María Elena Hernández
 Hi everybody!  Is it possible to get thecoluns names of an a table in the database with a sqlquery?? Thanks, a lot. e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]