>
> i ran today in a problem when doing some (i mean too much for me)
advanced sql...
>
> What i want to do is something like this:
>
> SELECT
> my_var1,
> my_var2,
> my_function(my_var1, my_var2)
> FROM (
> SELECT
> '1',
> '2',
> '3',
> '4'
> ) AS my_var1_values,
> (
> SELECT
> '1',
> '2',
> '3',
> '4'
> ) AS my_var2_values
>
> In short, i want to calculate the result of the function my_function
for
> some values of my_var1, cross by some values of my_var2.
> These values are not taken in a table, but put in directly.
> They are a lot, so i would prefer not to write the whole thing, line
> after line. (Let's say 10 values for the first, and 40 for the second
=>
> 400 lines of code to maintain...)
>
> I really don't see how to do this :-/
>
What about using a TEMP TABLE?
And COPY <temp-table> FROM STDIN offers a real fast way to populate.
BTW, why using SQL at all? Couldn't perl do the job much easier?
Regards, Christoph