From: Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv@yahoo.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: checking if sequence exists
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:56:33 -0800 (PST)
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By itself this sql works:
SELECT 0 FROM pg_class
WHERE relkind = 'S'
AND oid = ('public.' || quote_ident('hibernate_sequence'))::regclass;
However when I create a function for it and run it I see an error
create function chk_sequence() returns integer as $$
BEGIN
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_class
WHERE relkind = 'S'
AND oid = ('public.' || quote_ident('hibernate_sequence')))::regclass
THEN
return 1;
ELSE
return 0;
END IF;
END;
$$ language plpgsql;
select chk_sequence();
ERROR: operator does not exist: oid = text
LINE 3: AND oid = ('public.' || quote_ident('hibernate_...
^
HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.
QUERY: SELECT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_class
WHERE relkind = 'S'
AND oid = ('public.' || quote_ident('hibernate_sequence')))::regclass
Thanks.
From: Elliot <yields.falsehood@gmail.com>
To: Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv@yahoo.com>; Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>; "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] checking if sequence exists
On 2013-11-15 16:09, Thara Vadakkeveedu wrote:
"First, is this code in a plpgsql contex"?
>
>No, that is my problem.
>
>Does it have to be inside a Create function block or can justwrapping the if with a BEGIN END; suffice ?
>
>Control structures like if statements don't exist in straight sql - you need a procedural language like pl/pgsql for that. Wrapping sql statements in begin/end only affects the transactional context of the statements, it does not cause them to be interpreted as pl/pgsql. You can either create a function or you can use a "DO" block, which is sometimes what I use for deploy scripts [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-do.html].
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