Re: constants

Hi Frank,

Thanks, interesting idea - it looks like it would work fine, but wouldn't it
be a little on the slow side?

I like the constant table idea (hmm, could automatically populate the
constant table by parsing my PHP definitions files, tasty...) - but again
speed is of the essence...

--
Shane

On Monday 04 Feb 2002 9:12 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> Try a pg function.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createfunction.html
>
> CREATE FUNCTION one() RETURNS int4
> AS 'SELECT 1 AS RESULT'
> LANGUAGE 'sql';
> SELECT one() AS answer;
> answer
> --------
> 1
>
> If you are truly adventurous, you could create a 'constant' table and have
> the function take an argument, which is key to the table.
>
> Frank
>
> At 02:00 PM 2/4/02 +0000, 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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