Re: Question - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From David Costa
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Msg-id 42799097-6489-11D8-A344-000A95EB456A@dotgeek.org
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In response to Re: Question  (Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net>)
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Anyone with something simple like SELECT from bestdatabases where
logic_power.....opensource....
something not that complicate.
Imagine we have a table with a number of relational databases listed.
And our query will return postgresql :D

On Feb 21, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Rod Taylor wrote:
>
>
>> rbt=# select nspname, sum(relpages) from pg_class join pg_namespace n
>> on
>> (relnamespace = n.oid) group by nspname, relnamespace having 2 >
>> (SELECT
>> count(*) from pg_constraint where relnamespace = connamespace);
>> With some effort you might be able to get the above down to a single
>> line (shorter column names, etc.).
>> It takes the sum of pages used by relations in namespaces with a
>> minimum
>> of 2 constraints.
>
> I think any query fiddling with metadata is a bad idea for a sig.
>
> I would say overriding function calls in a single query would make
> great example. After all O in ORDBMS is for overriding..:-)
>
> How about declaring a contest on general? An event always stirrs up
> creativity.
>
>  Shridhar
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