Re: Updating column to link one table to another

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Mark Collette <mark(at)hyperbyte(dot)ab(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updating column to link one table to another
Date: 2004-12-20 09:13:28
Message-ID: 41C697B8.9030700@archonet.com
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Mark Collette wrote:
>
> Now, I've added the infrequentId columns to both, as an optimization, so
> that I can quickly find the InfrequentTable entry for a given
> FrequentTable entry. I've done this because I want to speed up
> SELECTs. Any new INSERTs are working just fine. But, all my legacy
> entries, are not linked up yet. I need to know how I can UPDATE the
> FrequentTable rows, where their infrequentId is zero, to point at the
> last InfrequentTable entry whose timestamp ts is before its own
> timestamp ts.

How do you distinguish between InfrequentTable entries when their
timestamp is the same?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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