getting a timestamp (or other value) back from an SQL UPDATE statement

[Peter Haworth]

OK, well if that's really a problem, the only other way I can think of is
calculate the timestamp in your LC script and hand it off to the update
statement as a literal value instead of using NOW()

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  UPDATE myindex SET tmstmp=NOW() RETURNING tmstmp;
> >
> >
> > Just do SELECT tmstmp FROM myIndedx right after the UPDATE and before the
> > END.and get rid of the RETURNING clause
>
> That's what I'm doing right now--and trying to avoid.  It gives me the
> full latency lag twice, at several hundred milliseconds each!
>
>
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