Hi,
I have a column with a sequence in a table and want to allocate the
first 200 for special purpose thus starting the sequence from 200. For
the first 200 I have entries that will be added and removed.
Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the
frist free number or any within the range of 200?
For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in
the new entry with id 31.
I currently do it with a function but I was just wondering if there is a
way without it..
Thanks
Alex
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> Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31. I currently do it with a function but I was just wondering if there is a way without it..
If I understand well, what something about
SELECT min(xxx) FROM table WHERE xxx<50
Best regards,
Lada 'Ray' Lostak
Unreal64 Develop group http://www.orcave.com http://www.unreal64.net
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Thanks,
but that only gives me smallest number of the ones in use but not the
first free number.
Alex
Lada 'Ray' Lostak wrote: Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31. I currently do it with a function but I was just wondering if there is a way without it..
If I understand well, what something about
SELECT min(xxx) FROM table WHERE xxx<50
Best regards, Lada 'Ray' Lostak Unreal64 Develop group http://www.orcave.com http://www.unreal64.net
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:52:37 +0900, Alex <al**@meerkatso ft.com> wrote: Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31.
Fortunately this is not the performance mailing list :-)
First free number:
SELECT max(t1.id) + 1
FROM t AS t1 INNER JOIN t AS t2
ON (t1.id < 200 AND t1.id < t2.id AND t2.id <= 200)
GROUP BY t2.id
HAVING max(t1.id) + 1 < t2.id
ORDER BY t2.id
LIMIT 1;
Make sure that there is always a row with id=0 and a row with id=200.
Any free number:
SELECT id - 1
FROM t
WHERE 1 < id AND id <= 200
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM t AS t2 WHERE t2.id = t.id - 1)
LIMIT 1;
Always having a row with id=200 helps avoid unwanted corner cases.
One more:
SELECT coalesce(max(id ), 0) + 1
FROM t
WHERE id <= 200
AND id = (SELECT count(*) FROM t AS t2 WHERE t2.id <= t.id);
This should work without any dummy rows. And it will not work, if id
is not unique or there is any row with id < 1.
Servus
Manfred
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> > Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31. I currently do it with a function but I was just wondering if there is a way without it.. If I understand well, what something about
SELECT min(xxx) FROM table WHERE xxx<50
After I sent it, I saw I understand bad... Just woke up... Sorry :)
I personally think, you need small procedure do to that, because you want to
perform condition 'min(xxx)' on "unexisting " columns.
R.
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yes i am doing it that way now, but though there may be another way ...
more out of curiosity
thanks anyway
Lada 'Ray' Lostak wrote: Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31. I currently do it with a function but I was just wondering if there is a way without it..
If I understand well, what something about
SELECT min(xxx) FROM table WHERE xxx<50
After I sent it, I saw I understand bad... Just woke up... Sorry :)
I personally think, you need small procedure do to that, because you want to perform condition 'min(xxx)' on "unexisting " columns.
R.
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alex wrote: Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31.
If you had a table with an id column and 200 rows 1-200 you could do
SELECT MIN(idtab.id) FROM idtab LEFT JOIN realtab ON (idtab.id =
realtab.id AND realtab.id IS NULL)
A useful generic function would be one something like range(min,max) that
would return a set of rows so you wouldn't have to actually have a table.
Kris Jurka
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Kris Jurka wrote: A useful generic function would be one something like range(min,max) that would return a set of rows so you wouldn't have to actually have a table.
You mean like this?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(int,int) RETURNS SETOF int AS '
BEGIN
FOR i IN $1..$2 LOOP
RETURN NEXT i;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STRICT IMMUTABLE;
regression=# select * from test(4, 8);
test
------
4
5
6
7
8
(5 rows)
HTH,
Joe
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:52:37 +0900, Alex <al**@meerkatso ft.com> wrote: Is there an easy way to write a select statement that returns me the frist free number or any within the range of 200? For example if 1-30, and 32-50 are occupied then i would like to fill in the new entry with id 31.
Fortunately this is not the performance mailing list :-)
First free number:
SELECT max(t1.id) + 1
FROM t AS t1 INNER JOIN t AS t2
ON (t1.id < 200 AND t1.id < t2.id AND t2.id <= 200)
GROUP BY t2.id
HAVING max(t1.id) + 1 < t2.id
ORDER BY t2.id
LIMIT 1;
Make sure that there is always a row with id=0 and a row with id=200.
Any free number:
SELECT id - 1
FROM t
WHERE 1 < id AND id <= 200
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM t AS t2 WHERE t2.id = t.id - 1)
LIMIT 1;
Always having a row with id=200 helps avoid unwanted corner cases.
One more:
SELECT coalesce(max(id ), 0) + 1
FROM t
WHERE id <= 200
AND id = (SELECT count(*) FROM t AS t2 WHERE t2.id <= t.id);
This should work without any dummy rows. And it will not work, if id
is not unique or there is any row with id < 1.
Servus
Manfred
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Kris Jurka wrote: A useful generic function would be one something like range(min,max) that would return a set of rows so you wouldn't have to actually have a table.
You mean like this?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(int,int) RETURNS SETOF int AS '
BEGIN
FOR i IN $1..$2 LOOP
RETURN NEXT i;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STRICT IMMUTABLE;
regression=# select * from test(4, 8);
test
------
4
5
6
7
8
(5 rows)
HTH,
Joe
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