Can Firebirds SELECT FIRST accept a variable? - firebird

http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd20-select.html#langrefupd20-first-skip
The manual says that FIRST accepts "Any expression evaluating to an integer." Shouldn't this mean a variable too?
In the following stored procedure, I get an error trying to supply :DAYS to FIRST.
Token unknown - line 10, column 18
:
Line 10 column 18 is the : in front of DAYS...
SET TERM ^ ;
CREATE PROCEDURE P_STOCK_MDA
( STOCK BIGINT, TRADE_DATE DATE, DAYS SMALLINT )
RETURNS
( AVG_CLOSE NUMERIC(6,2) )
AS
BEGIN
SELECT AVG(STOCK_ADJ_CLOSE) FROM (
SELECT FIRST :DAYS STOCK_ADJ_CLOSE
FROM STOCK_DAILY yd
WHERE yd.STOCK_STOCK=:STOCK AND yd.TRADE_DATE<=:TRADE_DATE
ORDER BY yd.TRADE_DATE DESC
) INTO AVG_CLOSE;
END^

You need to enclose the parameter in parentheses to get it working:
SELECT FIRST (:DAYS) STOCK_ADJ_CLOSE
Full code:
SET TERM ^ ;
CREATE PROCEDURE P_STOCK_MDA
( STOCK BIGINT, TRADE_DATE DATE, DAYS SMALLINT )
RETURNS
( AVG_CLOSE NUMERIC(6,2) )
AS
BEGIN
SELECT AVG(STOCK_ADJ_CLOSE) FROM (
SELECT FIRST (:DAYS) STOCK_ADJ_CLOSE
FROM STOCK_DAILY yd
WHERE yd.STOCK_STOCK=:STOCK AND yd.TRADE_DATE<=:TRADE_DATE
ORDER BY yd.TRADE_DATE DESC
) INTO AVG_CLOSE;
END^
SET TERM ; ^
The documentation does say :
If <int-expr> is an integer literal or a query parameter, the “()” may be omitted
However I assume this only applies to the ? query parameter in DSQL, not to the named parameters in PSQL.

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I want to create a stored procedure in Firebird:
CREATE PROCEDURE CalcPvIncome
( BeginDate date,
EndDate date,
KwPrice decimal (2,2) )
RETURNS ( Total_PV_Production decimal (9,2),
Total_Income decimal (9,2) )
AS
BEGIN
FOR SELECT SUM(ENERGY/1000), SUM((ENERGY/1000) * :KwPrice)
FROM PVPROD
WHERE proddate >= :BeginDate AND proddate <= :Enddate
INTO :Total_PV_Production , :Total_Income
DO
BEGIN
SUSPEND ;
END
END
I get this error:
Engine Code : 335544569
Engine Message : Dynamic SQL Error SQL error code = -104 Unexpected end of command - line 18, column 9
The SQL statement:
SELECT
SUM(ENERGY/1000) AS Total_PV_Production,
sum((ENERGY/1000)*0.55) as Total_Income
FROM
PVPROD
where
proddate >= '12.06.2012' and proddate <= '12.07.2012'
You have to add SET TERM statement before and after the stored procedure. It is used to change the "terminator character". Here's an example:
SET TERM ^ ;
CREATE PROCEDURE CalcPvIncome
( BeginDate date,
EndDate date,
KwPrice decimal (2,2) )
RETURNS ( Total_PV_Production decimal (9,2),
Total_Income decimal (9,2) )
AS
BEGIN
...
END
SET TERM ; ^
Note that default terminator is ^ and also note that you are setting ; as new terminator before and resetting it back to ^ after stored procedure declaration.

Repeated use of parameter for multiple UDF's in FROM throws an invalid column name error

When using multiple table-valued functions in a query like beneath, SSMS throws an error. Also, the [Date] parameter of [PRECALCPAGES_asof] is underlined in red.
I am trying to understand why this fails. I think this might be related to the way the SQL Server engine works. Have looked into documentation on MSDN but unfortunately I do not know what to look for. Why is this caused and is there a way around it?
Query
SELECT
[Date]
, COUNT(*)
FROM
[Warehouse].[dbo].[DimDate]
CROSS APPLY
[PROJECTS_asof]([Date])
INNER JOIN
[PRECALCPAGES_asof]([Date]) ON [PRECALCPAGES_asof].[PROJECTID] = [PROJECTS_asof].[PROJECTID]
GROUP BY
[Date]
Error
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 9
Invalid column name 'Date'.
Functions
CREATE FUNCTION [ProfitManager].[PROJECTS_asof]
(
#date DATETIME
)
RETURNS TABLE AS
RETURN
(
SELECT
[PROJECTID]
, [PROJECT]
, ...
FROM
Profitmanager.[PROJECTS_HISTORY]
WHERE
[RowStartDate] <= #date
AND
[RowEndDate] > #date
)
GO
CREATE FUNCTION [ProfitManager].[PRECALCPAGES_asof]
(
#date DATETIME
)
RETURNS TABLE AS
RETURN
(
SELECT
[PAGEID]
, [PAGENAME]
, ...
FROM
Profitmanager.[PRECALCPAGES_HISTORY]
WHERE
[RowStartDate] <= #date
AND
[RowEndDate] > #date
)
GO
I think you can't use fields from tables as parameters to a function in a join. You should use cross apply.
SELECT
[Date]
, COUNT(*)
FROM
[Warehouse].[dbo].[DimDate]
CROSS APPLY
[PROJECTS_asof]([Date])
CROSS APPLY
[PRECALCPAGES_asof]([Date])
WHERE
[PRECALCPAGES_asof].[PROJECTID] = [PROJECTS_asof].[PROJECTID]
GROUP BY
[Date]

PostgreSQL ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "1e+06"

The full error message is:
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "1e+06"
SQL state: 22P02
Context: In PL/R function sample
The query I'm using is:
WITH a as
(
SELECT a.tract_id_alias,
array_agg(a.pgid ORDER BY a.pgid) as pgids,
array_agg(a.sample_weight_geo ORDER BY a.pgid) as block_weights
FROM results_20161109.block_microdata_res_joined a
WHERE a.tract_id_alias in (66772, 66773, 66785, 66802, 66805, 66806, 66813)
AND a.bldg_count_res > 0
GROUP BY a.tract_id_alias
)
SELECT NULL::INTEGER agent_id,
a.tract_id_alias,
b.year,
unnest(shared.sample(a.pgids,
b.n_agents,
1 * b.year,
True,
a.block_weights)
) as pgid
FROM a
LEFT JOIN results_20161109.initial_agent_count_by_tract_res_11 b
ON a.tract_id_alias = b.tract_id_alias
ORDER BY b.year, a.tract_id_alias, pgid;
And the shared.sample function I'm using is:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION shared.sample(ids bigint[], size integer, seed integer DEFAULT 1, with_replacement boolean DEFAULT false, probabilities numeric[] DEFAULT NULL::numeric[])
RETURNS integer[] AS
$BODY$
set.seed(seed)
if (length(ids) == 1) {
s = rep(ids,size)
} else {
s = sample(ids,size, with_replacement,probabilities)
}
return(s)
$BODY$
LANGUAGE plr VOLATILE
COST 100;
ALTER FUNCTION shared.sample(bigint[], integer, integer, boolean, numeric[])
OWNER TO "server-superusers";
I'm pretty new to this stuff, so any help would be appreciated.
Not a problem of the function. Like the error messages says: The string '1e+06' cannot be cast to integer.
Obviously, the columns n_agents in your table results_20161109.initial_agent_count_by_tract_res_11 is not an integer column. Probably type text or varchar? (That info would help in your question.)
Either way, the assignment cast does not work for the target type integer. But it does for numeric:
Does not work:
SELECT '1e+06'::text::int; -- error as in question
Works:
SELECT '1e+06'::text::numeric::int;
If my assumptions hold, you can use this as stepping stone.
Replace b.n_agents in your query with b.n_agents::numeric::int.
It's your responsibility that numbers stay in integer range, or you get the next exception.
If that did not nail it, you need to look into function overloading:
Is there a way to disable function overloading in Postgres
And function type resolution:
PostgreSQL function call
The schema search path is relevant in many related cases, but you did schema-qualify all objects, so we can rule that out.
How does the search_path influence identifier resolution and the "current schema"
Your query generally looks good. I had a look and only found minor improvements:
SELECT NULL::int AS agent_id -- never omit the AS keyword for column alias
, a.tract_id_alias
, b.year
, s.pgid
FROM (
SELECT tract_id_alias
, array_agg(pgid) AS pgids
, array_agg(sample_weight_geo) AS block_weights
FROM ( -- use a subquery, cheaper than CTE
SELECT tract_id_alias
, pgid
, sample_weight_geo
FROM results_20161109.block_microdata_res_joined
WHERE tract_id_alias IN (66772, 66773, 66785, 66802, 66805, 66806, 66813)
AND bldg_count_res > 0
ORDER BY pgid -- sort once in a subquery. cheaper.
) sub
GROUP BY 1
) a
LEFT JOIN results_20161109.initial_agent_count_by_tract_res_11 b USING (tract_id_alias)
LEFT JOIN LATERAL
unnest(shared.sample(a.pgids
, b.n_agents
, b.year -- why "1 * b.year"?
, true
, a.block_weights)) s(pgid) ON true
ORDER BY b.year, a.tract_id_alias, s.pgid;

Column is of type timestamp without time zone but expression is of type character

I'm trying to insert records on my trying to implement an SCD2 on Redshift
but get an error.
The target table's DDL is
CREATE TABLE ditemp.ts_scd2_test (
id INT
,md5 CHAR(32)
,record_id BIGINT IDENTITY
,from_timestamp TIMESTAMP
,to_timestamp TIMESTAMP
,file_id BIGINT
,party_id BIGINT
)
This is the insert statement:
INSERT
INTO ditemp.TS_SCD2_TEST(id, md5, from_timestamp, to_timestamp)
SELECT TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING.id
,TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING.md5
,from_timestamp
,to_timestamp
FROM (
SELECT '20150901 16:34:02' AS from_timestamp
,CASE
WHEN last_record IS NULL
THEN '20150901 16:34:02'
ELSE '39991231 11:11:11.000'
END AS to_timestamp
,CASE
WHEN rownum != 1
AND atom.id IS NOT NULL
THEN 1
WHEN atom.id IS NULL
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS transfer
,stage.*
FROM (
SELECT id
FROM ditemp.TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING
WHERE file_id = 2
GROUP BY id
HAVING count(*) > 1
) AS scd2_count_ge_1
INNER JOIN (
SELECT row_number() OVER (
PARTITION BY id ORDER BY record_id
) AS rownum
,stage.*
FROM ditemp.TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING AS stage
WHERE file_id IN (2)
) AS stage
ON (scd2_count_ge_1.id = stage.id)
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT max(rownum) AS last_record
,id
FROM (
SELECT row_number() OVER (
PARTITION BY id ORDER BY record_id
) AS rownum
,stage.*
FROM ditemp.TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING AS stage
)
GROUP BY id
) AS last_record
ON (
stage.id = last_record.id
AND stage.rownum = last_record.last_record
)
LEFT JOIN ditemp.TS_SCD2_TEST AS atom
ON (
stage.id = atom.id
AND stage.md5 = atom.md5
AND atom.to_timestamp > '20150901 16:34:02'
)
) AS TS_SCD2_TEST_STAGING
WHERE transfer = 1
and to short things up, I am trying to insert 20150901 16:34:02 to from_timestamp and 39991231 11:11:11.000 to to_timestamp.
and get
ERROR: 42804: column "from_timestamp" is of type timestamp without time zone but expression is of type character varying
Can anyone please suggest how to solve this issue?
Postgres isn't recognizing 20150901 16:34:02 (your input) as a valid time/date format, so it assumes it's a string.
Use a standard date format instead, preferably ISO-8601. 2015-09-01T16:34:02
SQLFiddle example
Just in case someone ends up here trying to insert into a postgresql a timestamp or a timestampz from a variable in groovy or Java from a prepared statement and getting the same error (as I did), I managed to do it by setting the property stringtype to "unspecified". According to the documentation:
Specify the type to use when binding PreparedStatement parameters set
via setString(). If stringtype is set to VARCHAR (the default), such
parameters will be sent to the server as varchar parameters. If
stringtype is set to unspecified, parameters will be sent to the
server as untyped values, and the server will attempt to infer an
appropriate type. This is useful if you have an existing application
that uses setString() to set parameters that are actually some other
type, such as integers, and you are unable to change the application
to use an appropriate method such as setInt().
Properties props = [user : "user", password: "password",
driver:"org.postgresql.Driver", stringtype:"unspecified"]
def sql = Sql.newInstance("url", props)
With this property set, you can insert a timestamp as a string variable without the error raised in the question title. For instance:
String myTimestamp= Instant.now().toString()
sql.execute("""INSERT INTO MyTable (MyTimestamp) VALUES (?)""",
[myTimestamp.toString()]
This way, the type of the timestamp (from a String) is inferred correctly by postgresql. I hope this helps.
Inside apache-tomcat-9.0.7/conf/server.xml
Add "?stringtype=unspecified" to the end of url address.
For example:
<GlobalNamingResources>
<Resource name="jdbc/??" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
...
url="jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/Local_DB?stringtype=unspecified"/>
</GlobalNamingResources>

Convert a string representing a timestamp to an actual timestamp in PostgreSQL?

In PostgreSQL: I convert string to timestamp with to_timestamp():
select * from ms_secondaryhealthcarearea
where to_timestamp((COALESCE(update_datetime, '19900101010101'),'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
> to_timestamp('20121128191843','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
But I get this error:
ERROR: syntax error at end of input
LINE 1: ...H24MISS') >to_timestamp('20121128191843','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
^
********** Error **********
ERROR: syntax error at end of input
SQL state: 42601
Character: 176
Why? How to convert a string to timestamp?
One too many opening brackets. Try this:
select *
from ms_secondaryhealthcarearea
where to_timestamp(COALESCE(update_datetime, '19900101010101'),'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') >to_timestamp('20121128191843','YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
You had two opening brackets at to_timestamp:
where to_timestamp((COA.. -- <-- the second one is not needed!
#ppeterka has pointed out the syntax error.
The more pressing question is: Why store timestamp data as string to begin with? If your circumstances allow, consider converting the column to its proper type:
ALTER TABLE ms_secondaryhealthcarearea
ALTER COLUMN update_datetime TYPE timestamp
USING to_timestamp(update_datetime,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS');
Or use timestamptz - depending on your requirements.
Another way to convert a string to a timestamp type of PostgreSql is the above,
SELECT to_timestamp('23-11-1986 06:30:00', 'DD-MM-YYYY hh24:mi:ss')::timestamp without time zone;
I had the same requirement as how I read the title. How to convert an epoch timestamp as text to a real timestamp. In my case I extracted one from a json object. So I ended up with a timestamp as text with milliseconds
'1528446110978' (GMT: Friday, June 8, 2018 8:21:50.978 AM)
This is what I tried. Just the latter (ts_ok_with_ms) is exactly right.
SELECT
data->>'expiration' AS expiration,
pg_typeof(data->>'expiration'),
-- to_timestamp(data->>'expiration'), < ERROR: function to_timestamp(text) does not exist
to_timestamp(
(data->>'expiration')::int8
) AS ts_wrong,
to_timestamp(
LEFT(
data->>'expiration',
10
)::int8
) AS ts_ok,
to_timestamp(
LEFT(
data->>'expiration',
10
)::int8
) + (
CASE
WHEN LENGTH(data->>'expiration') = 13
THEN RIGHT(data->>'expiration', 3) ELSE '0'
END||' ms')::interval AS ts_ok_with_ms
FROM (
SELECT '{"expiration": 1528446110978}'::json AS data
) dummy
This is the (transposed) record that is returned:
expiration 1528446110978
pg_typeof text
ts_wrong 50404-07-12 12:09:37.999872+00
ts_ok 2018-06-08 08:21:50+00
ts_ok_with_ms 2018-06-08 08:21:50.978+00
I'm sure I overlooked a simpler version of how to get from a timestamp string in a json object to a real timestamp with ms (ts_ok_with_ms), but I hope this helps nonetheless.
Update: Here's a function for your convenience.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION data.timestamp_from_text(ts text)
RETURNS timestamptz
LANGUAGE SQL AS
$$
SELECT to_timestamp(LEFT(ts, 10)::int8) +
(
CASE
WHEN LENGTH(ts) = 13
THEN RIGHT(ts, 3) ELSE '0'
END||' ms'
)::interval
$$;