From: Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@jonathangardner.net>
To: Terence Kearns <terencek@isd.canberra.edu.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: parse error for function def
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:37:01 -0700
Message-ID: <200307171437.02671.jgardner@jonathangardner.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F167E9D.2090709@cts.canberra.edu.au>
References: <3F167E9D.2090709@cts.canberra.edu.au>
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On Thursday 17 July 2003 03:46, Terence Kearns wrote:
> CREATE FUNCTION base.fn_fkey_check(text, text, int4) RETURNS bool AS
> 'DECLARE
> BEGIN
> RETURN (SELECT count($1) FROM $2 where $1 = $3)::bool;
> END;'
> LANGUAGE 'sql';
>
> produces this error
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "RETURN" at character 20
>
> I'm trying to create a function to use on a trigger to check reference
> to views since pg does not support foreign keys referencing views.
If you want to write triggers, there is great documentation on that in the
PL/pgSQL documentation.
I'll give this a shot:
CREATE FUNCTION base.fn_fkey_check(name, name, name, name) RETURNS TRIGGER AS
'
BEGIN
" $1 column1 (the table that has the foreign key column)
" $2 - table2 $3 - column2 (the table/column that is the primary key being
reference)
EXECUTE ''SELECT $3 FROM $2 WHERE $3=NEW.$1'';
IF FOUND
THEN RETURN NEW
RAISE ERROR ''Foreign key violation.'';
RETURN;
END'
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
- --
Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@jonathangardner.net>
(was jgardn@alumni.washington.edu)
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