Thread: perl and postgres. . .

I'm trying in perl to get a maximum value from a field in a postgres table:
$query="select max(userseq) from dataentry;";
$result=$conn->exec("$query");

and then capture that value in a scalar variable:
    $userseq=($result);

but it's not working.  The field userseq is int4 if that matters to you.
 if I can capture that value in a variable then I can use it in an update
query for that particular record.  Can anyone enlighten me??

jt

> I'm trying in perl to get a maximum value from a field in a postgres table:
> $query="select max(userseq) from dataentry;";
> $result=$conn->exec("$query");
>
> and then capture that value in a scalar variable:
>     $userseq=($result);
>
> but it's not working.

$result->getvalue(0, 0)

(pse. read examples in `perldoc Pg`)

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, JT Kirkpatrick wrote:

> I'm trying in perl to get a maximum value from a field in a postgres table:
> $query="select max(userseq) from dataentry;";
> $result=$conn->exec("$query");
>
> and then capture that value in a scalar variable:
>     $userseq=($result);
>
> but it's not working.  The field userseq is int4 if that matters to you.
>  if I can capture that value in a variable then I can use it in an update
> query for that particular record.  Can anyone enlighten me??

You can't get row information from a query that way.  You need to use
$result->fetchrow to get the actual data out of your query (it returns
Null if there are no more rows to fetch from). You could do something like:

@q_row = $result->fetchrow;
$userseq = $q_row[0];

To get that information.


Brett W. McCoy
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