From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | David(dot)Bear(at)asu(dot)edu |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: query and stored procedures |
Date: | 2005-01-06 03:14:22 |
Message-ID: | 41DCAD0E.8050402@commandprompt.com |
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David Bear wrote:
>I'm so totally new to postgresql that I'm not sure how to word this.
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What you want to do is create a function (store procedure)...
You can use plpythonu to do what you want. So you could create
something like this:
create or replace function check_id(text) returns integer as ...
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>I want to create a query, that does two things
>
>1) take input in the form of a string of numbers, and test if
> a) is ssn
> b) or internal id
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>if the string is an ssn, make a second query to another data base,
>asking it to convert the ssn to our internal id
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>otherwise,
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>2) use the id given to query an existing table
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>I'm not sure what feature/function postgresql has to help me do this.
>I'd like to stick with using python as my language, and I'm guessing
>this would be stored procedure, but I'm too new to know.
>
>Please point me to some good reading.
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