From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: sramsay@uga.edu
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: functions in WHERE clause
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:26:35 -0700
Message-ID: <20060305172635.GA77911@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305151652.GA14216@cantor.english.uga.edu>
References: <20060305151652.GA14216@cantor.english.uga.edu>
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:16:52AM -0500, sramsay@uga.edu wrote:
> I've got one of these:
>
> SELECT * from some_table WHERE
> test_for_equality_is_syntactically_ugly;
>
> What I'd like to do is encapsulate the WHERE clause in a function,
> but I'm having no end of trouble.
Would a view work? If not then please provide a more concrete
example that shows what you're trying to do.
CREATE VIEW foo AS
SELECT * FROM some_table
WHERE test_for_equality_is_syntactically_ugly;
--
Michael Fuhr
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