From: Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt>
To: tlund79 <thomas.lund@eniro.no>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Using variables in select
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:03:52 +0100
Message-ID: <96225C62740C45BB83267537E29E8712@marktestcr.marktest.pt> (raw)
References: <1313147137184-4692865.post@n5.nabble.com>
How do you access your database?
Through some client application like psql ? Through some other mean?
The query you included is the query you wanna perform against ur table?
Or was it just an example?
Do you wanna avoid having to write the complete query on the command line?
If so, you sound like you need a function
something
like
CREATE FUNCTION customer_table(int) RETURNS customer_table
AS $$ SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT costumer_id),AVG(price) FROM customer_table
WHERE productid = $1 $$
LANGUAGE SQL;
HTH
Best,
Oliveiros
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From: "tlund79" <thomas.lund@eniro.no>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 12:05 PM
Subject: [SQL] Using variables in select
> Hi,
>
> Firstly; I'm not a developer, but a business developer and statistics guy.
> This means that I'm happy using "basic" selects to gather information for
> analysis.
>
> One thing that could really efficiate my work is using variables, let's
> say
> I have a table with different orders;
>
> |customer_id|productid|price|
>
> What I really want is to create a general query where I could easily
> substitute productid.
>
> //
>
> declare variable --> productid = 10
>
> select count(distinct customer_id), avg(price) from customer_table where
> productid=<insert variable>
>
> \\
>
> Is there a way of doing this without getting involved with heavy
> programming?
>
>
>
> Thank you and applogies if this is a ridicioulus question!
>
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