I have a table with a varchar column.
I want to select the distinct values from this column and loop through
them (using as a variable) in a raise notice statement and also in an
update statement.
I have not been able to do this trying over 100 things in the last two
hours. I could not find
"J.V." writes:
> for tmp_var in select distinct(value) from mytable where
> value2='literal'
> tmp_var has to be in ' ' ticks or will not work. it is failing on the
> first FOR statment stating: "invalid input syntax for integer:
> "some_distinct_value".
Um, how do you have tmp_var dec
As Tom said, you need to declare tmp_var as per the result set coming from
select distinct (value) column.
I gave a try on it.
create or replace function prn_test() returns void as $$
declare
tmp_var test_table.name%type; ///Test_table with name column
which is varchar(20) in my case
b
On 2012-05-18, J.V. wrote:
> I have a table with a varchar column.
>
> I want to select the distinct values from this column and loop through
> them (using as a variable) in a raise notice statement and also in an
> update statement.
>
> I have not been able to do this trying over 100 things in
On 18/05/2012 21:30, J.V. wrote:
> update table set varcharid = ''' || tmp_var || '''
Others have answered your question, but there's a problem here too; you
don't need the quotes. This statement should be just:
update table set varcharid = tmp_var;
...assuming that the types match, of course.
