From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Marc Mamin <M.Mamin@intershop.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: a way to generate functions dynamically ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:19:57 +0000
Message-ID: <45A60F4D.8080305@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA896D7906BF224F8A6D74A1B7E54AB30175095D@JENMAIL01.ad.intershop.net>
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Marc Mamin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to generate some procedures that depend data models stored in my
> DBs.
> As I have different models in different databases, the stored procedures
> will differ.
>
> My idea is to generate the required stored procedures dynamically once a
> model is defined.
> I will probably do this within the application. But is there a way to
> achieve this with plpgsql ?
>
> here a naive try to illustrate my idea:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(p1 int)
> RETURNS integer AS
> $BODY$
>
> EXECUTE'
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generated(p2 int)
> RETURNS integer AS
> $BODY$
> BEGIN
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "BEGIN"
> SQL state: 42601
The only mistake is in the $$ quoting. It thinks the second $BODY$ is
closing the first. You'll need to generate a different quote-identifier
(e.g. $CUSTOM$).
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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