Hello, is there any way how one can store the result of a time-consuming calculation if this result is needed more than once in an SQL update query? This solution might be PostgreSQL specific and not standard SQL compliant. Here is an example of what I want:
UPDATE table1 SET StartTime = 'time consuming calculation 1', StopTime = 'time consuming calculation 2', Duration = 'time consuming calculation 2' - 'time consuming calculation 1' WHERE foo; It would be nice, if I could use the "new" start and stop time to calculate the duration time. First of all it would make the SQL statement faster and secondly much more cleaner and easily to understand. Best regards, Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Nagel Willy-Andreas-Allee 1, Zimmer 506 76131 Karlsruhe Telefon: +49-721-8695-1506 Mobil: +49-151-15998774 e-Mail: matthias.h.na...@gmail.com ICQ: 499797758 Skype: nagmat84 -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
