From: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
To: 'Ronald Rojas' <ronald.rojas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: populate value of column
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:15:21 +1000
Message-ID: <00a801c7deea$840f3090$9b0014ac@wbaus090> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187078373.24482.2.camel@localhost>
I believe they are standard PostgreSQL functions – not sure what version
they appeared in though.
I learnt about them by RTM
Cheers,
~p
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Rojas [mailto:ronald.rojas@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 18:00
To: Phillip Smith
Subject: Re: [SQL] populate value of column
Hi philipp,
How do i get those built-in function like LPAD, GENERATE_SERIES in
postgresql? is there a query where I can list down those?
Thanks in advance.
Ronald
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:37 +1000, Phillip Smith wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
On Behalf Of novice
Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:31
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] populate value of column
> How can I generate the following result?
>
> meter_id | bay
> ----------+------------
> 1001 | 01
> 1001 | 02
> 1001 | 03
> 1001 | 04
> 1012 | 01
> 1012 | 02
> 1012 | 03
> 1012 | 04
> 1012 | 05
> 1012 | 06
I even tested this one too ;)
SELECT meter_id,
LPAD(GENERATE_SERIES(1,area_no),2,'0')
FROM meter;
Works on 8.2.4 - you didn't say what version you were using.
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