On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Terry <td3201@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Terry <td3201@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Terry <td3201@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have an application that is doing something stupid in that it is >>>> tacking on its own order clause at the end of the statement I am >>>> providing. >>>> >>>> For example, I am putting this statement in: >>>> select ev_id,type,ev_time,category,error,ev_text,userid,ex_long,client_ex_long,ex_text >>>> from clients_event_log limit 100 >>>> >>>> It is tacking on ORDER BY ev_id. The problem is that isn't per the >>>> syntax. Can anyone think of anything clever to get around this stupid >>>> application doing what it is doing? For example, anything I can do >>>> beside limit? >>>> >>>> I appreciate the thoughts! >>> >>> You could either wrap it in a subselect or make a view. >>> >>> select * from (select >>> ev_id,type,ev_time,category,error,ev_text,userid,ex_long,client_ex_long,ex_text >>> from clients_event_log limit 100) as a >>> >>> and an order by tacked on the end of that is ok. >>> >> >> This and the previous poster's advice both worked. Thank you. >> However, I am having another issue where the application is not >> viewing a 'serial' data type as a number. Clearly none of this is a >> postgres issue. Stupid programming. >> > > Based on my above comment. Is there a way to create a view or > something that presents the serial column as an integer? In the end, > that's what it is but on the insert side it is incrementing the number > for the underlying app. I'm not a SQL guy but that's my understanding > anyways. I could even perhaps do a table copy process and simply make > the destination type an integer rather than a serial? Just thinking > out loud. Anyone have an idea here? You could alter it to an int, then create a sequence with the same start as the old sequence and assign it as default for the int. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
