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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: what does this do
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:57:07 +0000
Message-ID: <m3y6encfzw.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
References: <201006100222.03196.johnf@jfcomputer.com>

John <johnf@jfcomputer.com> wrote:

> I have a piece of python code that excutes a SQL statement:

> apitempCur.execute("select * from jfcs_balancedue('%s') f(enrolleeid varchar,
> course_cost decimal, paid_amt decimal)" % (enrollIds,));

> The "enrollids" is a list of primary keys and the "jfcs_balancedue" is a user
> defined function.  What I don't understand is the "f(enrolleeid
> varchar, ...)"   I have no idea what it's for?  Would some kind soul educate
> me.

You can omit the "AS" from "table_name AS alias
(column_alias, ...)", but AFAIK PostgreSQL doesn't support
specifying a data type for each column. Which DBMS is this
code used for?

Tim




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