Thanks for the suggestion! I don't really want to do that though b/c the table that I'm searching is pretty large. I was hoping to do only one query on the table and then put some indexes on the fields to improve performance. But I can't think of a way to structure my code so that I can do just one query AND get info about which user-entered values don't find a match. (Brent Matzelle suggested that this isn't really a "failure" of the query, and I guess he's right, so hopefully this describes what I'm talking about a little better). Heather ----- Original Message ----- From: <Timothy_Maguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Heather Johnson" <hjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <pgsql-php-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: [PHP] Re: how to determine where a select statement fails > > other than putting an if statement and doing 3 more queries, I can't think > of anything > > something like: > if(pg_numrows == 0) > { > select * from table where streetname = streetname > if(pg_numrows == 0) > { > you found your error > } > else > { > do another query......... > } > } > > Tim. > > Timothy P. Maguire > Web Developer II > Harte-Hanks > 978 436 3325 > > > > > "Heather Johnson" > <hjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx To: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > cc: > Sent by: Subject: how to determine where a select statement > pgsql-php-owner@post fails > gresql.org > > > 07/26/01 11:15 AM > > > > > > > I am using php to do a select query which returns rows on the condition > that > a conjunction is true in the WHERE clause. This is the SELECT statement: > > SELECT low_range, high_range, st_name, city, zip FROM router > WHERE st_name = '$st_name' AND city = '$city' AND zip = '$zip'; > > In the event that the query fails to return any rows, I'd like to be able > to > determine which conjunct caused it to fail. So, for example, if the > user-entered $st_name isn't in the router table, I'd like to know that > st_name = '$st_name' is what made the conjunction false and caused the > query > to fail. $pg_errormsg isn't this specific about query failures though. Does > anyone know how I might be able to get this information? > > Thanks! > Heather Johnson > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html