I have a database with columns looking like: session | order | atype | amt --------+-------+-------+----- 1 | 0 | ADD | 10 1 | 1 | ADD | 20 1 | 2 | SET | 35 1 | 3 | ADD | 10 2 | 0 | SET | 30 2 | 1 | ADD | 20 2 | 2 | SET | 55 It represents actions happe...
I have a table, Foo. I run a query on Foo to get the ids from a subset of Foo. I then want to run a more complicated set of queries, but only on those IDs. Is there an efficient way to do this? The best I can think of is creating a query such as: SELECT ... --complicated stuff WHERE ... --more stuff AND id IN (1, 2, 3, 9, 413, 4324, ....
I want to create some mad robust code. I want to take a query as a string, create a temporary view / table to store the results, use it, then drop the table. I want to use a name that is guaranteed to not already exist in the database. Is there an SQL command to generate a unique table name? I'm using postgresql if this is implementation...
I want to run many select queries at once by putting them between BEGIN; END;. I tried the following: cur = connection.cursor() cur.execute(""" BEGIN; SELECT ...; END;""") res = cur.fetchall() However, I get the error: psycopg2.ProgrammingError: no results to fetch How can I actually get data this way? Likewise, if I just have ma...
I know this has probably been asked before, but I can't find it with SO's search. Lets say i've TABLE1 and TABLE2, how should I expect the performance of a query such as this: SELECT * FROM TABLE1 WHERE id IN SUBQUERY_ON_TABLE2; to go down as the number of rows in TABLE1 and TABLE2 grow and id is a primary key on TABLE1. Yes, I know...
I'm using postgres and I'm getting the duplicate key error when updating a row: cursor.execute("UPDATE jiveuser SET userenabled = 0 WHERE userid = %s" % str(userId)) psycopg2.IntegrityError: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "jiveuser_pk" I don't understand how updating a row can cause this error... any help will be much ...
Hi all, Does any one know how to create crosstab queries in PostgreSQL? For example I have the following table: Section Status Count A Active 1 A Inactive 2 B Active 4 B Inactive 5 I would like the query to return the following crosstab: Section Active Inactive A 1 ...
HI, Iam trying to insert batch of records at a time when any of the record fails to insert i need to trap that record and log that to my failed record maintanance table and then the insert should continue. Kindly help on how to do this. ...
I want to backup Development and restore it in test and vice-versa. So when I do a backup of the db (in PGAdmin III), it backs it up. But when I restore it, all primary key information is gone and no data is in the tables. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. ...
I want to define a trigger in PostgreSQL to check that the inserted row, on a generic table, has the the property: "no other row exists with the same key in the same valid time" (the keys are sequenced keys). In fact, I has already implemented it. But since the trigger has to scan the entire table, now i'm wondering: is there a need for...
What is the default directory where postgresql will keep all databases on linux? ...
I am trying to write the following query on postgresql: select name, author_id, count(1), (select count(1) from names as n2 where n2.id = n1.id and t2.author_id = t1.author_id ) from names as n1 group by name, author_id This would certainly work on Microsft SQL Server but it does not at all on p...
I cannot seem to get this right, I am trying to modify a field to be a foreign key, with cascading delete... what am i doing wrong? ALTER TABLE my_table ADD CONSTRAINT $4 FOREIGN KEY my_field REFERENCES my_foreign_table ON DELETE CASCADE; ...
I'm trying construct a PostgreSQL query that does the following but so far my efforts have been in vain. Problem: There are two tables: A and B. I'd like to select all columns from table A (having columns: id, name, description) and substitute the "A.name" column with the value of the column "B.title" from table B (having columns: id, t...
I have a table T1 with 60 rows and 5 columns: ID1, ID2, info1, info2, info3. I have a table T2 with 1.2 million rows and another 5 columns: ID3, ID2, info4, info5, info6. I want to get (ID1, ID2, info4, info5, info6) from all the rows where the ID2s match up. Currently my query looks like this: SELECT T1.ID1, T2.ID2, T2.info4,...
I have an entry in my crontab that looks like this: 0 3 * * * pg_dump mydb | gzip > ~/backup/db/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).psql.gz That script works perfectly when I execute it from the shell, but it doesn't seem to be running every night. I'm assuming there's something wrong with the permissions, maybe crontab is running under a different use...
hey guys i have a column in the database(postgresql) i want to insert the current time in GMT in this column when getting the current time and inserting it into the DB it's inserted in the server timezone GMT-5 although that time was in GMT+0 any ideas how to insert this time in the database in GMT timezone ? ...
I have a question. Transaction isolation level is set to serializable. When the one user opens a transaction and INSERTs or UPDATEs data in "table1" and then another user opens a transaction and tries to INSERT data to the same table, does the second user need to wait 'til the first user commits the transaction? ...
Hi, I have stored procedure that takes input parameter of table type. procedure test( name samptable type); My table has the structure like table: samptable( name chracter varying; address text[]; ) So how shoul i pass the values to the function to fill the table. ...
I have table where the one of columns is geometry column the_geom for polygons with SRID. I added new column in the same table with exactly the same geometry data as in the_geom. This another column has name the_geom4258 because I want here to set up another SRID=4258. So what is the procedure to set up another SRID geometry to be change...