From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Tony G. Harris <tgharris_1@juno.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Trouble porting a Oracle PL/SQL procedure to PL/pgSQL
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030616191549.W78774-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030616.205744.-16302819.1.tgharris_1@juno.com>
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Tony G. Harris wrote:
> Hello. I'm using PostgreSQL to learn SQL and SQL-based languages. The
> text I'm using (SAMS Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days, 3rd.ed.) references
> Oracle in its examples, though I can usually get PostgreSQL to work
> almost as well.
>
> Well, I'm almost to the end of the book and I'm trying to port some of
> the book's PL/SQL examples to PL/pgSQL, with mixed success. In this
> case, I translated
>
> BEGIN
> DECLARE
> UnknownPayType EXCEPTION;
> CURSOR pay_cursor IS
> SELECT name, pay_type, pay_rate, eff_date, sysdate,
> rowid
> FROM pay_table;
> IndRec pay_cursor%ROWTYPE;
> . . .
> END;
> /
>
> to this:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_pay() RETURNS VOID AS '
> DECLARE
> pay_cursor CURSOR IS
> SELECT name, pay_type, pay_rate, eff_date, current_date, oid
> FROM pay_table;
> IndRec pay_cursor%ROWTYPE;
> cOldDate DATE;
> . . .
> END;
> '
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> The problem is, when I call the function, I get:
>
> sql-practice=# select update_pay();
> ERROR: pay_cursor: no such class
> WARNING: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of update_pay near line 2
> WARNING: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of update_pay near line 2
> ERROR: pay_cursor: no such class
>
> I tried several ways of defining pay_cursor, with the same result.
> What am I to do?
I think it's complaining because you can't use pay_cursor%ROWTYPE. Maybe
declaring IndRec as being of type record may work (don't know for
certain).
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