From: Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql@envisity.com>
To: roland@astrofoto.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:51:17 GMT
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On 18 Nov 2001 22:57:05 -0500, Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> wrote:
>
> Aasmund> Well, to the best of my knowledge your question is a
> Aasmund> contradiction in terms: plpgsql is a procedural language
> Aasmund> to use it you must create a stored procedure or
> Aasmund> function...
>
> Coming from an Oracle background, perhaps I don't see it the same
> way. To merely *call* a PL/SQL procedure, I have to do something like
>
> BEGIN
> MYPROC (a, b, c)
> END;
>
> So I *could* create a pl/pgsql function and call it like that, but
> since pl/pgsql procedures aren't compiled I wondered if I could do it
> inline.
I do believe they are compiled.
>
> Aasmund> However you are probably able to do many of the things
> Aasmund> you may want with plain old SQL look it up in the docs
> Aasmund> especially the case structure.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion; I'll have a look at the case structure....
>
> roland
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