From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: Daniel Caune <daniel.caune@ubisoft.com>
Cc: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:16:45 +0100
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Hi, Daniel,
Daniel Caune wrote:
> I'm not sure to understand. Why calling a function from a script is different from executing a series of SQL commands? I mean, I can run a script defined as follows:
>
> SELECT myjob();
>
> where myjob is a stored procedure such as:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myjob()
> RETURNS void
> AS $$
> <a-lot-of-complex-stuff-here>
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;
>
> Does that make sense?
It does make sense if myjob() does more than just execute a bunch of
statements, e. G. it contains if(), loops or something else.
PLPGSQL is turing complete, plain SQL is not.
Markus
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