From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: FET <bilaribilari@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Stored procedures and relations
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:09:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20031128190810.J52057@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f86b739.0311280120.15475f08@posting.google.com>
References: <f86b739.0311280120.15475f08@posting.google.com>
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, FET wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a stored procedure that drops table A and then creates table A
> again. The table A has no constraints on any columns. When I execute
> the stored procedure by saying: SELECT sp_myproc(); It gives me an
> error saying : Relation 68428 does not exist.
>
> When I remove the CREATE FUNCTION and the stuff used to make it a
> stored procedure, and run the commands in the procedure, it works
> correctly.
>
> This behaviour is observed on all stored procedures on PG-SQL. I would
> really appreciate any help or interpretation of this error. By the
> way, the same stored procedure (with the syntax changed of course)
> works perfectly on MS SQL Server.
You haven't given too many details about what your function does, but, in
general if you're accessing a table whose structure is being dynamically
modified during/between calls, you'll currently want to be using EXECUTE
on queries relating to that table.
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