From: Gene Selkov Jr. <selkovjr@xnet.com>
To: JT Kirkpatrick <jt-kirkpatrick@mpsllc.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] perl and postgres. . .
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:02:08 -0400
Message-ID: <199904211602.LAA10273@antares.mcs.anl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01BE8BEC.76C02840.jt-kirkpatrick@mpsllc.com>
> I'm trying in perl to get a maximum value from a field in a postgres table:
> $query="select max(userseq) from dataentry;";
> $result=$conn->exec("$query");
>
> and then capture that value in a scalar variable:
> $userseq=($result);
>
> but it's not working.
$result->getvalue(0, 0)
(pse. read examples in `perldoc Pg`)
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