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Subject: Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions
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From: Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>
Date: 18 Nov 2001 22:57:05 -0500
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>>>>> "Aasmund" == Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql@envisity.com> writes:

    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.

    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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