Re: [SQL] function definition documentation

2004-03-23 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
Thanks muchly for the excellent tip. Lots of useful references there. I seem to have battled through this thicket -- onwards ! Greg -Original Message- From: Richard Huxton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:09 AM To: Gregory S. Williamson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: [SQL] move forward 0 from foo;

2004-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Chester Kustarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I expected "MOVE FORWARD 0 FROM foo;" to always return > 0, but I have found this not to be the case. You are misinterpreting the output. The result is the number of rows that would have been returned by a FETCH with the same parameters. FETCH 0 means

[SQL] move forward 0 from foo;

2004-03-23 Thread Chester Kustarz
I expected "MOVE FORWARD 0 FROM foo;" to always return 0, but I have found this not to be the case. Could anybody comment whether this is expected: mow=# begin; BEGIN mow=# create table a (a integer); CREATE TABLE mow=# insert into a values ( 1 ); INSERT 1823482 1 mow=# insert into a values ( 1 );

Re: [SQL] SQL Query

2004-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 20:02:32 +, beyaNet Consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to create a query which basically goes along the lines of: > > INSERT INTO tableX ( COL1, COL2 ) VALUES ( x, y ) where COL1 !=x and > COL2 !=Y > > So, insert a record into tableX where th

[SQL] SQL Query

2004-03-23 Thread beyaNet Consultancy
Hi, I am trying to create a query which basically goes along the lines of: INSERT INTO tableX ( COL1, COL2 ) VALUES ( x, y ) where COL1 !=x and COL2 !=Y So, insert a record into tableX where there is not already an existence of COL1 and COL2 Can this be done as I have described or is there a mor

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] PHP or JSP? That is the question.

2004-03-23 Thread Guy Fraser
Yes java is compiled, and compilers do catch most syntax and scope errors, as I said, but the java object code is still interpreted. Logical errors and other mistakes still get through compilation, and good regression testing is still required for quality assurance. I think JSP is an excelent s

Re: [SQL] fine grained trigger time specification...

2004-03-23 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Erik Thiele wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:17:31 -0600 > Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 15:19:13 +0100, > > Erik Thiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > now sadly i am getting this kind of problem: > > > > > > > > > zeit=> insert in

Re: [SQL] fine grained trigger time specification...

2004-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 15:19:13 +0100, Erik Thiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now sadly i am getting this kind of problem: > > > zeit=> insert into a select > nextval('delmeseq'),personalnumber,datum,datum from calendar where > type=10409; > INSERT 0 581 <-- see, 581 inserts which is prett

Re: [SQL] fine grained trigger time specification...

2004-03-23 Thread Erik Thiele
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:17:31 -0600 Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 15:19:13 +0100, > Erik Thiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > now sadly i am getting this kind of problem: > > > > > > zeit=> insert into a select > > nextval('delmeseq'),personalnumber,datum

Re: [SQL] Sorting an aggregated column

2004-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
"David Witham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I see that there is the extra sort above the sub-query that > wouldn't be there using 7.4. Are you saying that the sort by survey > after the sort by survey,question would potentially reorder the > records initially sorted by survey,question? Exactly

Re: [SQL] inverse of "day of year"

2004-03-23 Thread Martin Marques
El Lun 22 Mar 2004 12:56, Dana Hudes escribió: > If you have the option to handle the date manipulation in Perl > use the DateTime modules. Also see Date::Calc. NO! Actualy what I'm doing is getting out of that (I'm using PHP's PEAR Date::Calc) by creating some nice SQL and PL/PgSQL functions in

Re: [SQL] function definition documentation

2004-03-23 Thread Richard Huxton
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 02:16, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > I am having an impossible time porting some simple Stored Procedures from > Informix to postgres. The documentation is almost self defeating. > > Are there any better descriptions of how to define functions that return > several tuples