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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Mark Collette <mark@hyperbyte.ab.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Updating column to link one table to another
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:13:28 +0000
Message-ID: <41C697B8.9030700@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <114A1D38-4E81-11D9-BAA1-0050E4799418@hyperbyte.ab.ca>
References: <114A1D38-4E81-11D9-BAA1-0050E4799418@hyperbyte.ab.ca>

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?

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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