Matthias Nagel <matthias.h.na...@gmail.com> hat am 29. September 2012 um 12:49
geschrieben:
> 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;

The Duration - field is superfluous ...

As far as i know there is no way to re-use the result.


Regards, Andreas


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