Re: [SQL] Selecting * from the base table but getting the inheriteds

2002-10-30 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik James Adams napisa?: Hello, I have a baseTable. I have a number of decendantTables that INHERIT from the base table. I want to do somthing like =select * from baseTable; But I want it to return the data in the all the descendant tables along with the extra column that they

Re: [SQL] Creating Stored Procedures

2002-10-30 Thread Kabai József
As far as I know functions can not return recordsets. Try functions returning cursors (then FETCH ALL IN..), or temporary tables. regards Joseph - Original Message - From: Philip Van Hoof [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:23

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Bhuvan A
Can anybody take me reference on Database design tool with PostgreSQL support. visit, http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin/ regards, bhuvaneswaran ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [SQL] Creating Stored Procedures

2002-10-30 Thread Jonas Wouters
From: Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philip Van Hoof [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SQL] Creating Stored Procedures Date: 29 Oct 2002 10:36:17 -0800 On 29 Oct 2002, Philip Van Hoof wrote: Note that I have searched A LOT on google about

Re: [SQL] Selecting * from the base table but getting the inheriteds

2002-10-30 Thread James Adams
Yea it would be easier to have everything in one table filling unused with nulls, but I was trying to avoid that because of the wasted space. But I think I'll do it that way after all :~] Thanks for your help - Original Message - From: Tomasz Myrta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Adams

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Uz.ytkownik Viacheslav N Tararin napisa?: Hi. Can anybody take me reference on Database design tool with PostgreSQL support. pgadmin.postgresql.org Tomasz Myrta ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [SQL] Creating Stored Procedures

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Witney
I installed 7.3beta3 but how do I do it now? How do I make a function that returns a dataset Greets Zertox He is an email I received from Joe Conway on the subject a month or so ago Adam Witney wrote: There have been a few emails recently concerning using functions. However I am a

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Johannes Lochmann
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:45, Viacheslav N Tararin wrote: Hi, (which list should this go to? I guess it is OT on both...) Can anybody take me reference on Database design tool with PostgreSQL support. Dia and dia2sql (or something similar...) Google knows more :-) HTH Johannes Lochmann

Re: [SQL] BOOLEAN question

2002-10-30 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
Why not simply: SELECT COALESCE( (SELECT true FROM ... WHERE boolcol LIMIT 1), FALSE); JLL Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Perhaps SELECT true = ANY (SELECT boolcol FROM ...); or SELECT true IN (SELECT boolcol FROM ...); Which is not to say that MAX(bool) might not be a

Re: [SQL] BOOLEAN question

2002-10-30 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
Of course, I meant SELECT COALESCE( (SELECT true FROM ... WHERE ... AND boolcol LIMIT 1), FALSE); Jean-Luc Lachance wrote: Why not simply: SELECT COALESCE( (SELECT true FROM ... WHERE boolcol LIMIT 1), FALSE); JLL Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Perhaps SELECT true = ANY

[SQL] unnecessary updates

2002-10-30 Thread chester c young
When doing database work over the web, especially when many records are on one page, *many* updates get posted to pg that do not change the record. Eg, the page may contain 50 records, the user changes 1, and submits. I assume that a no-change update takes the same resources as a real update,

Re: [SQL] unnecessary updates

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
One strategy is to use some sort of middleware that takes care of this. On a project I did a few years ago, I used a perl module that read the record from Postgres and made it into a perl object. The object contained a variable, changed, that reflected whether anything had actually changed in the

[SQL] How do I get rid of these messages?

2002-10-30 Thread Wei Weng
How do I get rid of the messages like NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'test_pkey' for table 'test' coming out from stderr when I run psql with my create table script? (I don't want to direct them to /dev/null, since I still want to be able to see the *real* sql

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Wei Weng
My colleague installed a redhat database 2(which is based on postgresql) onto his redhat 7.3 machine and it came with a very nice java query analyzer tool. It is sort of like the query analyzer in MS SQL Server with the graphical output of the execution plan, quite intuitive. I wonder if I can

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Wei, My colleague installed a redhat database 2(which is based on postgresql) onto his redhat 7.3 machine and it came with a very nice java query analyzer tool. It is sort of like the query analyzer in MS SQL Server with the graphical output of the execution plan, quite intuitive. I wonder

Re: [SQL] Database Design tool

2002-10-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Wei, Do you have any idea of what the software is called? I could only find the redhat database ISO for download. Announced on PGSQL-ANNOUNCE a couple of weeks ago: (if you're not subscribed to PGSQL-ANNOUNCE, you should be) === The Red Hat

[SQL] time limit of a database connection

2002-10-30 Thread jack
I use a window client to conncet to a postgreSQL server with windows ODBC. It seems if I haven't done anything on the connection for hours, the connection will be dropped. Is that possible to set the time limit of a connection? Thank you in advance! Jack ---(end of