Re: best way to swap two records (computer details)

From: Gary Stainburn <gary(dot)stainburn(at)ringways(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: best way to swap two records (computer details)
Date: 2005-03-23 17:28:58
Message-ID: 200503231728.58173.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk
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On Friday 18 March 2005 4:32 pm, you wrote:
> How about a user defined function ???
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION harwareupdate(integer, integer) RETURNS
> BOOLEAN AS '
>
> update pieces set p_name = \'LSALES1\', p_location = \'Mike
> Haley\', p_site = \'L\' where p_id = $1;
>
> update pieces set p_name = \'SPARE\', p_location = \'spare\',
> p_site = \'L\'
> where p_id = 2;
>

This isn't quite what I want. I want to SWAP the p_name and p_location
between the two records, not set them to static values.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Gary Stainburn

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