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From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
Organization: Ringways Garages Ltd
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: best way to swap two records (computer details)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:28:58 +0000
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On Friday 18 March 2005 4:32 pm, you wrote:
> How about a user defined function ???
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION harwareupdate(integer, integer) RETURNS
> BOOLEAN AS '
>
>     update pieces set p_name = \'LSALES1\', p_location = \'Mike
> Haley\', p_site = \'L\' where p_id = $1;
>
>     update pieces set p_name = \'SPARE\', p_location = \'spare\',
> p_site = \'L\'
>     where p_id = 2;
>

This isn't quite what I want.  I want to SWAP the p_name and p_location 
between the two records, not set them to static values.

Any help would be appreciated.
-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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