| From: | chester c young <chestercyoung(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql(at)apartia(dot)org> |
| Cc: | sql pgsql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: simple web search |
| Date: | 2007-02-23 18:20:04 |
| Message-ID: | 658860.73789.qm@web54308.mail.yahoo.com |
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> > create view search_v as select
> > 'show'::name as tab_nm,
> > show_id as tab_pk,
> > 'Show Name' as description,
> > show_name as search
> > from show
> > union select
> > 'story'::name,
> > story_id,
> > 'Story Title',
> > title
> > from story
> > union ...
> >
> What is that ::name cast for?
it's not needed here - sorry.
name is the data type pg uses for table names &tc. it's frequently a
good idea to cast to name when when messing around in the data
dictionary.
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