Re: postgresql and perl?

Peter Landis wrote:
>
>
> How do you sort by the variable?
>
> $sqh = $dbh->prepare(q{select name from company order
> by $sort_selection;});
> $sqh->execute();

Your problem is not Perl specific. The order by column
must be in the result set (projection). Why not doing
it this way:

my @fields = qw/name zip location/;
push @fields, $sort_selection;

$sqh = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT " . join(', ', @fields) .
     " FROM company ORDER BY $sort_selction; );
$sqh->execute();

Greetings Herbie
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