From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dynmic column names inside trigger?
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:06:12 +0100
Message-ID: <20071123170611.GA31463@apartia.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4743F6E5.A3DD.0030.0@indicator.be>
References: <20071120161258.GA27106@apartia.fr>
<4743F6E5.A3DD.0030.0@indicator.be>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:14:14AM +0100, Bart Degryse wrote:
> I would do something like this (not tested, but conceptually working):
>
> CREATE or replace FUNCTION sanitize_text(webtext IN text, cleantext OUT text) AS
> $body$
> BEGIN
> cleantext = translate(webtext, E'\x92\x96', '''-');
> cleantext = regexp_replace(cleantext, E'\x9c', 'oe', 'g');
> cleantext = regexp_replace(cleantext, E'\x85', '...', 'g');
> END;
> $body$
> LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT;
Hi,
I was curious as to why you created this function with a prototype of
func(intext IN text, outtext OUT text) ... returns NULL
instead of the usual
func(intext text) ... returns TEXT
Is that a more efficient way?
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