Re: Reuse temporary calculation results in an SQL update query

Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> hat am 29. September 2012 um 16:13
geschrieben:
> Matthias Nagel wrote on 29.09.2012 12:49:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there any way how one can store the result of a time-consuming
> > calculation if this result is needed more
> >than once in an SQL update query? This solution might be PostgreSQL specific
> >and not standard SQL compliant.
> > Here is an example of what I want:
> >
> > UPDATE table1 SET
> > StartTime = 'time consuming calculation 1',
> > StopTime = 'time consuming calculation 2',
> > Duration = 'time consuming calculation 2' - 'time consuming calculation
> > 1'
> > WHERE foo;
> >
> > It would be nice, if I could use the "new" start and stop time to calculate
> > the duration time.
> >First of all it would make the SQL statement faster and secondly much more
> >cleaner and easily to understand.
>
>
> Something like:
>
> with my_calc as (
> select pk,
> time_consuming_calculation_1 as calc1,
> time_consuming_calculation_2 as calc2
> from foo
> )
> update foo
> set startTime = my_calc.calc1,
> stopTime = my_calc.calc2,
> duration = my_calc.calc2 - calc1
> where foo.pk = my_calc.pk;
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/queries-with.html#QUERIES-WITH-MODIFYING

Yeah, with a WITH - CTE, cool ;-)

Andreas