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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil.sontakke@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:36:36 -0400
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> One fairly simple way would use a new SQL verb (say, DO) like this:

> DO $$ something in plfoo $$ LANGUAGE plfoo;

Yeah, this has been suggested before.  I can't see anything very wrong
with it.

> We could even default the langauge to plpgsql, for which you would then 
> just need:

> DO $$ something in plpgsql $$;

Add a GUC variable to set the default language, perhaps?

> But to make it really nice you'd have to move away from pl programs as 
> strings. That would be a lot more work, and you really wouldn't want to 
> make it work with more than one PL for the sake of everyone's sanity.

That would be an awful lot of messiness to save four keystrokes...

			regards, tom lane



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