From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: Jomon Skariah <jomons@aztec.soft.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Porting from PL/SQL to PLPGSQL
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:12:25 -0600
Message-ID: <20030820211225.GA26409@cc.usu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F83B457BE363174B8233DE042A14457043A6C6@maya.aztec.soft.net>
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:15:23PM +0530, Jomon Skariah wrote:
>
> we are facing a few problems with PL/SQL Code..
>
>
> 1) In Oracle sqlplus we can run sql script files as @script_name;
> How do we do the same in PostGres.
psql takes \i. See psql's \?
See the "Porting From Oracle PL/SQL" document I wrote that is part of the
PL/pgSQL documentation.
> Also is there any replacement for "&&" in PostGres ?
>
>
> Eg:
> CREATE USER CATALOG
> IDENTIFIED BY &ORA_PASSWORD
> DEFAULT TABLESPACE &DFLT_TABLESPACE
> TEMPORARY TABLESPACE &TEMP_TABLESPACE
What does that do?
>
> 2) In PostGres a function can not take more 16 arguments.We have some
> procedures which are taking more than
> 16 arguements.So how can we convert them into PostGres.
You can recompile to change the number of parameters.
PG 7.3 can have up to 32 arguments by default, IIRC.
-Roberto
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