Re: Question

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net>
Cc: Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 2004-02-21 16:37:58
Message-ID: 1077381478.31467.11.camel@jester
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On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 11:10, 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.

Of course. I was simply demonstrating a query class that is complicated
which many databases probably don't support, PostgreSQL didn't until
recently, but is in the spec.

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