jmindek

/*
* Have tried to generate SQL statements by first retrieving table column names 
* from Redshift pg_* tables?
*
* You probably give up due to errors regarding invalid types.
*
* Here is my suggestion for accomplishing this.
* 
* First, use the create table statement below to create a temp table with the col_names for our table of interest.
* We must create a table otherwise we get an error that listagg must be used on a user-created table.

jmindek

distinct column -> For each row returned, return only the unique members of a set. Think of it as for each row in a projection, concatenate all the column values and return only the strings that are unique.

test_db=# SELECT DISTINCT parent_id, child_id, id FROM test.foo_table ORDER BY parent_id, child_id, id LIMIT 10;
parent_id | child_id | id
-----------+------------+-----------------------------
1000040 | 103 | 1000040|2645405726|0001|103

jmindek

;; The US Census data provides a lot of interesting data.
;; Currently, I am interested in latitudes and longitudes for cities. 

;; The Gazetteer file provides that for cities in the US.
;; You can grab the 2010 data here - http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer2010.html

;; At first glance the contents of the file looks well formatted. 
;; However, there are some minor formatting issues that will cause problems when importing this data into a data store.

;; Here are two small Clojure functions to fix those issues and output a well formatted file.