virtual fields on VIEW? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From raptor@tvskat.net
Subject virtual fields on VIEW?
Date
Msg-id 20040618161338.4ebf6406@bugs
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Responses Re: virtual fields on VIEW?  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Re: virtual fields on VIEW?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Re: virtual fields on VIEW?  (CoL <col@mportal.hu>)
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hi,

I want to make the following thing :
select-based updatable VIEW, which have two more virtual-fields.
One of them is concatenation of others and the second is calculated on the fly.
Can I do this and if yes how? can u give some example?

Here is the test bed :

table1)  id, date, field1, field2
table2)  id, fieldA, fieldB, fkID

now I want to make a view that is

create view as select
        t1.id, t1.date, t1.field1, t1.field2,
        t2.fieldA, t2.fieldB,
        state, stuff
  from table1 as t1, table2 as t2
  where t1.id = t2.fkID

>> WHERE "state" is caluclated like this :

state = 'red' if date > today
state = 'green' if date < today
state = 'blue' unless date

>> AND 'stuff' is concatenation of t1.field2 and  t2.fieldA.

>> BOTH state and stuff will be only available for SELECTs on the view i.e. they are not updatable ..


can this be done, if yes how.

tia




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