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From: soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com
To: laurenz.albe@cybertec.at
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: Pseudocode / Pseudo-Types
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:08:16 +0000
Message-ID: <891d4eb7b3214be2ad31b1fa876fa885@kpn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f51661770a45ce6c28aa2a39badf2e7769853e42.camel@cybertec.at>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> 
Sent: maandag 15 maart 2021 15:15
To: Bhattacharjee, Soumik <soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com>; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Pseudocode / Pseudo-Types

On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 13:55 +0000, soumik.bhattacharjee@kpn.com wrote:
> Has anybody has a use case for using Pseudocode / Pseudo-Types?
> 
> Any inputs will be helpful and if any reference sites to check some example use cases are also good to start with.
> 
> Thanks in advance...

Pseudocode, as in

  while (there is something to do)
     process_one_item();

is a tool to write down an algorithm in a way that is easy for programmers to understand.

Pseudo-types, as in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-pseudo.html
are something entirely different.

Here is a useful example:

CREATE FUNCTION successor(anyelement) RETURNS anyelement
   LANGUAGE sql AS 'SELECT $1 + 1';

SELECT successor(41);

 successor
-----------
        42
(1 row)

SELECT successor(current_date);

 successor
------------
 2021-03-16
(1 row)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
--
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com



Thanks for the information...


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