Re: [SQL] convert a bigint into a timestamp

2002-07-25 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 1:48 am, marc sturm wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to convert a bigint into a date > or timestamp in a SQL query. > Thanks a lot. The problem is that there is no cast from bigint=>interval directly AFAICT, so go via text. richardh=> select extract(epoch from no

Re: [SQL] Return Primary Key from Procedure

2002-07-25 Thread Richard Huxton
On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 3:12 pm, Peter Atkins wrote: > All, > > I have two tables t_proj, t_task see below: > > CREATE TABLE t_proj ( > proj_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, > PRIMARY KEY (proj_id), > task_id integer(12), > user_id integer(6), > title varchar(35), > description varchar(80) > ); >

[SQL] how do I change regional setting for dates?

2002-07-25 Thread Ligia Pimentel
I live in Guatemala, and our timezone is GMT -6, but my server (postgres 7.1 on a linux redhat 6.2) is storing the dates in the format 2002-07-24 00:00:00-04 ( I this understand represents GMT -4). My linux servers gives me the the date and time correctly, so I know is not a matter of the date o

[SQL] Function using more than one database

2002-07-25 Thread Christian Lübeck
Hi group, i am currently learning PGSQL and having a question: In DB1 i have got a table tbl1. In this table there are added, let's say 300 rows a day. Every time, rows are added, I want to Server to move these rows to other DBs (DB2,DB3,DB4). This seems not to work with Pl/Pgsql (or maybe I don

[SQL] use of client-side \lo_import and \lo_export commands

2002-07-25 Thread Viacheslav Kovalchuk
I am trying to insert a large object into my dbs using: INSERT INTO table VALUES (lo_import ( ' z/image/image.jpg ' )); but i get the message saying that I need superuser privilidges to do it and that I should use client-side \lo_import command. Does anyone know how to use that command? And wha

Re: [SQL] how do I change regional setting for dates?

2002-07-25 Thread Robert Treat
You can do "show all" inside psql, which will show you all of your current run time settings, including a line that should read "Time Zone is unset" or whatever it is set to. This isn't abundantly clear in the docs, so I'll add some notation there, but if you check out http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [SQL] Last record

2002-07-25 Thread omid omoomi
select * from foo_table order by oid desc limit 1; >From: Chris Ruprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Leao Torre do Vale" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [SQL] Last record >Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:56:50 -0400 > >Select * from where <..

[SQL] Using Tables from another database.

2002-07-25 Thread Rogério Baldini das Neves
Hello,   I need to make a view like:   create view  view_test as select * from mydb.mytable;   and I get this error:   ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "."   Whats the problem??   How can I solve this problem?   Thanks a lot,   Rogério Baldini    

[SQL] queries got slower using 7.1.3

2002-07-25 Thread Nathan Suderman
I have a weird problem and don't even know where to begin.  First let me explain what is going on.   I am developing on a Postgres 7.1.3 box and found this unexplainable delay on this query   select * from webfinal where w_artistkey = 'MICBUR' order by w_date offset 2 limit 4;   I get at leas