Greetings,
Please, what am I doing wrong?
chris=# \d phone_prefix
Table "phone_prefix"
-[ RECORD 1 ]--
Attribute | number
Type | integer
Modifier | not null default nextval('"phone_prefix_number_seq"'::text)
-[ RECORD 2
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
chris=# select phone_prefix.prefix order by random() limit 1 || '-' ||
lpad((random()*1)::int, 4, '0')::text as "Phone Number";
All the things you are selecting need to come in the first part of the
query.
like,
SELECT prefix || '-' ||
Christopher Sawtell writes:
chris=# select phone_prefix.prefix order by random() limit 1 || '-' ||
lpad((random()*1)::int, 4, '0')::text as "Phone Number";
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "||"
This sure won't fix everything, but at the very least you need to
parenthesize that
Dan Lyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So one might think that, with appropriate casting, something more
like:
select (select phone_prefix.prefix order by random() limit 1) || ...
would be more likely to work (modulo some casting and such).
Note this will not work in pre-7.1 releases --- 7.1
