Re: [SQL] Case Insensitive comparison

2003-09-25 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can i create a function that accept and return any type. the type any is not allowing as parameter or return type. Is it possible? i want to create a function similar to NULLIF(). You can't, nor will you be able to -- in te future, some 7.4 functions

[SQL] Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x

2003-09-25 Thread Przemysaw Supkowski
Hi Iam using postgresql 7.3.x. I amupgrating a databasePostgreSQL. The main problem is how to change field last value in sequencde which exists in database. I created script to read this field and then I'mdrop the table, do modification and i'm must change this value to another value. But

Re: [SQL] Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x

2003-09-25 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Hi I am using postgresql 7.3.x. I am upgrating a database PostgreSQL. The main problem is how to change field last value in sequencde which exists in database. I created script to read this field and then I'm drop the table, do modification and i'm must change this value to another value. But

Re: [SQL] Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x

2003-09-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 07:36, Przemysaw Supkowski wrote: Hi I am using postgresql 7.3.x. I am upgrating a database PostgreSQL. The main problem is how to change field last value in sequencde which exists in database. I created script to read this field and then I'm drop the table, do

Re: [SQL] Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:36, Przemysaw Supkowski wrote: Hi I am using postgresql 7.3.x. I am upgrating a database PostgreSQL. The main problem is how to change field last value in sequencde which exists in database. I created script to read this field and then I'm drop the table, do

Re: [SQL] Sequenties in pgSQL 7.3.x

2003-09-25 Thread Przemysaw Supkowski
HI Thanks for help I'm found this solution and this works, but I'm use something like that PERFORM setval(seq_name, value); It looks better but thanks a lot - Original Message - From: Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Przemysaw Supkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-sql

[SQL] few questions ..?

2003-09-25 Thread vijaykumar M
Hi All, I have few questions, kindly suggest your comments on this.. 1. Is that postgres supports distributed database ? In oracle, by creating Dblink we can communicate the remorte database from the local one. How you could implement this in postgres database. 2. Is

Re: [SQL] few questions ..?

2003-09-25 Thread vijaykumar M
Thanks richards ..i will go through that doc.. With Regards Vijay From: Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vijaykumar M [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SQL] few questions ..? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:07:00 +0100 On Thursday 25 September 2003 09:36, vijaykumar M wrote: Hi

Re: [SQL] Case Insensitive comparison

2003-09-25 Thread George A.J
Thanks to all of you for your valuable suggesstions does postgresql internally uses the = operator(text,text) for any other purposes. i think that overloading it solves the index problem too... Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes: How can i create a

[SQL] [pg-sql] Character encoding

2003-09-25 Thread BenLaKnet
How is it possible to convert a database in SQL_ASCII to UNICODE ? Thx a lot Regards Ben ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [SQL] Large Objects and Bytea

2003-09-25 Thread elein
In this week's General Bits, we talk about using large objects. Perhaps this might help you understand what is involved with using them. http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ cheers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:41:28AM +0530, Kumar wrote: Hi Friends, I am running Postgres

[SQL] weird(to me) request

2003-09-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
I have the following rows (in addition to others): acct_num text, master_acct_num text, These are in the same table. What I want to enforce is that if the master_acct_num field is NOT NULL (it can be NULL, and that's fine), that the value appears in some row as acct_num. acct_num has a unique

Re: [SQL] weird(to me) request

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Wieckowski
Uytkownik Larry Rosenman napisa: I have the following rows (in addition to others): acct_num text, master_acct_num text, These are in the same table. What I want to enforce is that if the master_acct_num field is NOT NULL (it can be NULL, and that's fine), that the value appears in some row as

Re: [SQL] weird(to me) request

2003-09-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 20:59:25 +0200 Adam Wieckowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U¿ytkownik Larry Rosenman napisa³: I have the following rows (in addition to others): acct_num text, master_acct_num text, These are in the same table. What I want to enforce is that if the

Re: [SQL] weird(to me) request

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 25 September 2003 19:51, Larry Rosenman wrote: I have the following rows (in addition to others): acct_num text, master_acct_num text, These are in the same table. What I want to enforce is that if the master_acct_num field is NOT NULL (it can be NULL, and that's fine), that

Re: [SQL] weird(to me) request

2003-09-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Thursday, September 25, 2003 20:09:35 +0100 Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 19:51, Larry Rosenman wrote: I have the following rows (in addition to others): acct_num text, master_acct_num text, These are in the same table. What I want to enforce is

[SQL] tsearch2 question

2003-09-25 Thread Wei Weng
In my tsearch2.sql there are statements like : --dict interface CREATE FUNCTION lexize(oid, text) returns _text as '$libdir/tsearch2' language 'C' with (isstrict); I don't think $libdir is the real value that we want. Do I need to set some special parameters

[SQL] RFC: i18n2ascii(TEXT) stored procedure

2003-09-25 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
I've created the following stored procedure to allow me to do international-insensitive text searches, e.g. a search for Resume would match the text Résumé. I wanted to know: a) am I missing any characters that need to be converted? My first (and only language) is English, so I'm in the dark

Re: [SQL] RFC: i18n2ascii(TEXT) stored procedure

2003-09-25 Thread Manuel Sugawara
Michael A Nachbaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b) is there a better and/or faster way of implementing this? I don't want searches to bog down (at least too badly) as a result of this. Use to_ascii(text), masm=# select to_ascii('áéíóú'); to_ascii -- aeiou (1 row) Regards, Manuel.

Re: [SQL] RFC: i18n2ascii(TEXT) stored procedure

2003-09-25 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
On Thursday 25 September 2003 05:06 pm, Manuel Sugawara wrote: Michael A Nachbaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b) is there a better and/or faster way of implementing this? I don't want searches to bog down (at least too badly) as a result of this. Use to_ascii(text), [snip] D'oh! I guess

Re: [SQL] Date interval

2003-09-25 Thread Tomasz Myrta
I am looking for a way to convert an interval into a number of days ( integer); In sybase I would use : days(today()-r_expire) where r_expire is the timestamp I am comparing against. How do we do this in postgres? date_trunc(today()-r_expire) does not seem to do it select extract(epoch