On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Nick Riemondi wrote: Just rewrite your case statement in the where clause.
> Hi! > I've got 2 date fields in table which constitute a term. On select I'm > calculating that term, BUT I can't figure out how to refer to it in the > sql - or if it's possible. I'd like to be able to use the case returned > value for order, comparing, etc. Here's an example: > > select case when (current_date > available) then ((end_date - > current_date) / 30) > when (current_date < available) then ((end_date - available) / > 30) > end > from listing > > This yields something along the line of: > > case > ------ > 2 > 39 > 11 > 64 > ... > > which is great. Now, I'd like to be able to do this for example: > > select case when (current_date > available) then ((end_date - > current_date) / 30) > when (current_date < available) then ((end_date - available) / > 30) > end > from listing > where case > 4 > > which yields: > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ">" > > Does anyone know how I could accomplish this? > > Thanks in Advance! > Nick > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > -- Achilleus Mantzios S/W Engineer IT dept Dynacom Tankers Mngmt tel: +30-10-8981112 fax: +30-10-8981877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])