Hello,
Say I have a discount table that stores either percentages or dollar
amounts, and I'd like to save the operator to be used in a
calculation. I started with a text field and CASE statement, but then
found the operator types that seem more useful:
CREATE TABLE discounts(price float, disc float, disc_oper regoperator);
INSERT INTO discounts VALUES
(100, .1, '*(float, float)'),
(100, 10, '-(float, float)');
so I could use a query like:
SELECT price OPERATOR(disc_oper::regoper) disc AS disc_amount FROM discounts
This doesn't work however, and I'm not sure why. I think I'm missing
something simple since:
SELECT disc_oper::regoper FROM discounts;
disc_oper
--------------
pg_catalog.*
pg_catalog.-
(2 rows)
and
SELECT 100 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.*) .1;
make me think I'm very close.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony