Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Misa, Tom & msi77, On 16/05/12 00:21, Misa Simic wrote: > SELECT id FROM generate_series(1,5) AS foo(id); Thanks for the suggestions - all sorted! cheers, Jan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [SQL] order by different on mac vs linux

2012-05-15 Thread Wes James
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Wes James wrote: >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Wes James writes: Why is there a different order on the different platforms. >>> >>> This is not exactly unusual.  You should

Re: [SQL] order by different on mac vs linux

2012-05-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Wes James wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Wes James writes: >>> Why is there a different order on the different platforms. >> >> This is not exactly unusual.  You should first check to see if >> lc_collate is set differently in the t

Re: [SQL] order by different on mac vs linux

2012-05-15 Thread Wes James
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Wes James writes: >> Why is there a different order on the different platforms. > > This is not exactly unusual.  You should first check to see if > lc_collate is set differently in the two installations --- but even if > it's the same, there are

Re: [SQL] order by different on mac vs linux

2012-05-15 Thread Wes James
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Wes James writes: >> Why is there a different order on the different platforms. > > This is not exactly unusual.  You should first check to see if > lc_collate is set differently in the two installations --- but even if > it's the same, there are

Re: [SQL] order by different on mac vs linux

2012-05-15 Thread Wes James
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Wes James writes: >> Why is there a different order on the different platforms. > > This is not exactly unusual.  You should first check to see if > lc_collate is set differently in the two installations --- but even if > it's the same, there are

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Misa Simic
Both works fine: SELECT generate_series AS id FROM generate_series(1,5); and SELECT id FROM generate_series(1,5) AS foo(id); Technically dont know is there any differenece... Thanks, Misa 2012/5/15 Tom Lane > Jan Bakuwel writes: > > What I need is the ability to name the column in the vie

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Bakuwel writes: > What I need is the ability to name the column in the view, ie. > create view v as select 1 as "id" from func(5); I think what you're looking for is the ability to re-alias a column name, for example select id from func(5) as foo(id); regard

Re: [SQL] Finding Max Value in a Row

2012-05-15 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
2012/5/14 Tom Lane > Carlos Mennens writes: > > I'm not understanding why I'm not able to change this column type from > > char to integer? > > > forza=# ALTER TABLE customers > > ALTER COLUMN cust_id TYPE integer; > > ERROR: column "cust_id" cannot be cast to type integer > > Try "ALTER ... cu

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Misa Simic
When you select from function I think column name is the same as function name. So if function name is func query would be: SELECT func AS id FROM func(5); Sent from my Windows Phone From: Jan Bakuwel Sent: 15/05/2012 08:02 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: [SQL] SELECT 1st field Hi, I've