Re: [GENERAL] checking data type

2006-03-30 Thread Chris
raj wrote: Hi, Chris (great looking site, by the way)! thanks for responding. i was just practicing on postgres and encountered this problem. i am using pg admin for postgres and for some reason the commands you posted does not seem to work. i was kinda looking for an built-in function like "upp

Re: [GENERAL] checking data type

2006-03-30 Thread raj
Hi, Chris (great looking site, by the way)! thanks for responding. i was just practicing on postgres and encountered this problem. i am using pg admin for postgres and for some reason the commands you posted does not seem to work. i was kinda looking for an built-in function like "upper() or max()

Re: [GENERAL] checking data type

2006-03-29 Thread Chris
raj wrote: is there a function that could check for a variable's data type? like i want to check all the columns of a table and if i found a column with an integer data type i set it to a default 1 and i'll set a constant to a column of type text. You could start psql with -E: psql -d dbname