From: Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar>
To: Rodrigo De León <rdeleonp@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PL argument max size, and doubt
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:46:59 -0300
Message-ID: <47446F13.3090003@marquesminen.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a55915760711210729t7d255de2kf0abc309ffd84ccc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4744313C.40107@marquesminen.com.ar>
<a55915760711210729t7d255de2kf0abc309ffd84ccc@mail.gmail.com>
Rodrigo De León escribió:
> On Nov 21, 2007 8:23 AM, Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> (BTW, which it that limit if it exists?).
>>
>
> "In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored
> is about 1 GB."
>
> See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/datatype-character.html
>
I was asking about the limit in the argument. Is it the same as the
limits the types have in table definition?
>> So I made the function to test:
>>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION datoGrande(TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $body$
>> BEGIN
>> EXECUTE $ins1$
>> INSERT INTO funcdatogrande VALUES (default,$ins1$ ||
>> quote_literal($1) || $ins2$)$ins2$;
>> IF FOUND THEN
>> RETURN TRUE;
>> ELSE
>> RETURN FALSE;
>> END IF;
>> END;
>> $body$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>>
>>
>> What bothers me is that the INSERT passes ok (the data is inserted) but
>> the function is returning false on any all to it. I hope not to have a
>> conceptual problem.
>>
>
> I don't think EXECUTEing sets FOUND to true. Try:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> DATOGRANDE(TEXT)
> RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $$
> BEGIN
> INSERT INTO FUNCDATOGRANDE VALUES (DEFAULT,$1);
> IF FOUND THEN
> RETURN TRUE;
> ELSE
> RETURN FALSE;
> END IF;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE 'PLPGSQL';
>
I have always heard that modification queries should be EXECUTED in PL.
AFAICR.
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