From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: plpgsql function question
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:18:43 +0200
Message-ID: <20070403181843.GB26926@KanotixBox> (raw)
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Karthikeyan Sundaram <skarthi98@hotmail.com> schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having a requirement here.
>
> 1) I need to write a plpgsql function where it takes the input
> parameter of a structure of a table.
Because? To build this table? You can pass an ascii-text with the
table-definition and EXECUTE this string.
> 2) The table has 15 columns
Okay. And the problem is?
> 3) It does lots of validation based on the parameter and finally
> returns an integer as output parameters
Okay. create function ... returns int as $$ ... return 1; end; $$
language plpgsql;
>
> Q) How will I passe the table structure as as parameter
As i said, for instance as simple text and EXECUTE this.
> 2) Do I need to create a type?
No.
Andreas
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