Re: sql question:

From: Ahti Legonkov <lego(at)127(dot)0(dot)0(dot)1>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sql question:
Date: 2002-07-14 02:38:45
Message-ID: 3D30E435.4070208@127.0.0.1
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Chris Aiello wrote:
> hi all:
>
> I'm trying to figure out SQL to do the following:
> I have an application that tracks SQL that is being sent to the database,
> and one of it's features is the ability to identify whether a query is an
> insert, update, delete, select, select with all rows returned, the query is
> the first in a user session....and many other criteria. Because of the
> nature of SQL, i.e. many of the above could be true, the deisgners made each
> flag a 'bit'. So an example is:
> 4 is a select
> 8 is insert
> 16 is update
> 32 is first query in session
> 64 is delete
> 128 is a cancelled query
> 256 is database cancelled query
>
>
>
> Now the SQL that I have to find is 'which of these records is a delete?'
> The values could be 64, 96, 416, 445, 320 and many others. All in all
> there are probably 20 possible values and the permutations are to lengthy to
> put in a 'like', so I need some kind of algorithm. Does anyone have any
> ideas?

The algorithm is as simple as that:

if (value & 64 == 64) {
// it is a delete
}

--
Ahti Legonkov

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