update field table.....

Started by Muhammad Rusydiabout 25 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Muhammad Rusydi
rusydi@cbn.net.id

Hi all,
i'm student from Indonesian.... :)
nice to meet the group....this is my first email in this forum....and i've a
lot of questions about Postgres....
well, one of my problem now is:
i want to update some of my field on table...
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sem period
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3 2000/2001
and i want it will be updated automatically to be.....
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sem period
--------------------
4 2001/2002
if date on the system or server (Postgres) changed on if the month changed
from February to March....and it'll also be update...
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sem period
--------------------
5 2002/2003
if the month change from Agustus to September....
is it possible to do this with Postgres? If there's someone ever had
experienced like this, i will be grateful for your help.
thank's for the help...sorry...my english bad and i hope it'll
understandable.... :)
piece...
Rusydi

#2Oliver Elphick
olly@lfix.co.uk
In reply to: Muhammad Rusydi (#1)
Re: update field table.....

"Muhammad Rusydi" wrote:

i want to update some of my field on table...
--------------------
sem period
--------------------
3 2000/2001
and i want it will be updated automatically to be.....
--------------------
sem period
--------------------
4 2001/2002
if date on the system or server (Postgres) changed on if the month changed
from February to March....and it'll also be update...
--------------------
sem period
--------------------
5 2002/2003
if the month change from Agustus to September....

You can't do this in PostgreSQL. You should use cron to run a script to
do these updates at the appropriate times.

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