Re: constants

Thanks but I know how to do it in PHP - the problem is that I want to do it
straight in SQL to avoid inserting my PHP constants into my SQL queries.

--
Shane

On Monday 04 Feb 2002 7:48 pm, Chadwick Rolfs wrote:
> There is a define:
>
> define("MYCONST", "4");
>
> read here...
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.php
>
> and here...
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.define.php
>
> and anywhere else I might have missed. I haven't used postgresql to
> define constants, yet, but I do believe it's possible...
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Shane Wright wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This may be the wrong list to ask this, apologies if so :)
> >
> > Anyway, is there any way to define constants in PostgreSQL - my app has
> > lots of them at the PHP level, but it'd be nice to use them directly in
> > the SQL without overly complex query building.
> >
> > Something like this...
> >
> > DEFINE CONSTANT MYCONST = 4;
> >
> > SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield=MYCONST;
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Shane
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