[SQL] freeing memory after fetch all

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Bovitz
How should I free memory after I allow FETCH ALL statements in a C program to auto-allocate memory? I assume that it's OK to use a simple free statement to free memory allocated for an array of values (e.g., an array of float values). But what about memory allocated for and associated with an a

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-04-29, Nicholas I wrote: > --000e0cd1d5062f2ca40468abd813 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different > database. you want to use a join but can't... you need to get both

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Edward W. Rouse
Can't you use this? select name from database2.sr_1 where name not in (select name from database2.pr_1); My test database VM isn't running so I can't test it, but I seem to remember that that's how I did it for a few queries of that type. This is assuming the 2 databases are running on the

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:20:02AM +1000, Adam Ruth wrote: >The simple answer is to pg_dump both tables and compare the output with >diff. >Other than that, I think you'll need a custom program. For all but the strictest definition of "identical", that won't work. Tables may easily con

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Osvaldo Kussama
2009/4/29 Nicholas I : > >   can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different > database. > Two PostgreSQL databases: dblink http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/dblink.html Distinct DBMS: dbilink http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/ Osvaldo -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Nicholas I
Hi All, For example, There are two database. database1 and database 2; database1 has a table called pr_1 with the columns, id,name and time. database2 has a table called sr_1 with the_columns id,name and time. i would like to find out the differences that is, find the nam

Re: [SQL] Comparing two tables of different database

2009-04-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-04-29, Nicholas I wrote: > --000e0cd1d5062f2ca40468abd813 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > can anybody me suggest me, how to compare two tables of different > database. you probably want to use some sort of join. -- Sent via