From: Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com>
To: Cyber Join <cyberjoin@linuxmail.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: select 3 characters
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030515221306.37113.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305151358.27937.josh@agliodbs.com>
--- Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> CJ -
>
> You might want to join the NOVICE list and post this
> kind of question there,
> should you have more.
>
> > Hi I need select the first 3 characters from a
> table
> >
> > I try this but doesn't work
> >
> > "SELECT left(data,3) AS value FROM table;"
> >
> > i see the left function doesn't work what is the
> similar function in
> postgresql
>
> SUBSTR(data, 1, 3)
>
> See "Functions And Operators" in the online docs for
> more.
PostgreSQL lets you define your own functions, so you
could do something like:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION left(text, integer) RETURNS
text AS '
SELECT substr($1, 1, $2);
' LANGUAGE 'SQL';
If you have a lot of code already written using the
"left" function, that will save you from having to
rewrite it.
Look at "CREATE FUNCTION" in the "SQL Commands"
section of the manual; also "Procedural Languages" in
the "Programmers Guide". Do a search on "function
overloading", so you will be able to define a function
that works regardless of the datatypes fed to it.
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