Re: [GENERAL] existence of column name

2009-04-15 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Smith writes: > Tried this out, and got a very familiar error that I don't know what > to do with : "Error: expected just one rule action". Er, tried *what* out? That's supposed to be a can't-happen case, so I'd like to see just what you did to trigger it. regard

Re: [GENERAL] existence of column name

2009-04-15 Thread Eric Smith
Tried this out, and got a very familiar error that I don't know what to do with : "Error: expected just one rule action". I'm using 8.3.5, and see this error quite a bit. Anyone know what's behind this error? Thanks, Eric On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: Eric Smith wrot

Re: [GENERAL] existence of column name

2009-04-11 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-04-09, Eric Smith wrote: > All, > > From the C API, how do I check for the existence of a column name in > a given table? you can look at the information schema, column-names in a result-set, or error messages. which is most apropriate depends on the context. -- Sent via pgsql-gen

Re: [GENERAL] existence of column name

2009-04-08 Thread John R Pierce
Eric Smith wrote: All, From the C API, how do I check for the existence of a column name in a given table? select data_type from information_schema.columns where table_schema='public' and table_name='given_table' and column_name='some_column'; that will return the data_type if the colu