From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | dimitri(at)France(dot)Sun(dot)COM |
Cc: | walt(at)stimpy(dot)com, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] returning the current date in a SQL query |
Date: | 1998-08-12 19:42:16 |
Message-ID: | 199808121943.PAA15897@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I think you have to play with UNION:
>
> select ... , project_date from tblprojects where title not in ( '[unknown]',
> 'pending' )
> UNION ALL
> select ... , 'now'::datetime from tblprojects where title = '[unknown]'
> UNION ALL
> select ... , 'now'::datetime from tblprojects where title = 'pending';
>
> It'll be more elegant if you create a VIEW with this query, but
> for the moment UNION is not available in VIEWs...
>
> Hope it helps...
> (dim)
yes, that is on the TODO list.
Not sure it will be in 6.4. Depend on the rewrite system cleanups.
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