Basic SQL Function question + existance of SPL?
От | mathprof@bigfoot.com |
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Тема | Basic SQL Function question + existance of SPL? |
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Msg-id | 200002020440.WAA11538@ogopogo.flash.net обсуждение исходный текст |
Список | pgsql-general |
Apologies if this question is too simple, but I couldn't find an example in the manual. If I'm writing a function in SQL, how do I use the value of a passed argument? For example, consider: CREATE FUNCTION foo(float8) RETURNS float8 AS 'select 1.0 as result' language 'sql'; select foo(2.3) as answer; This works great, but I'd like to write a function where the result actually depends on the argument-- as a simple example, I'd like to get back the argument plus 1 (eg, "select foo(2.3) as answer" yields 3.3 where as "select foo(4.3) as answer" yields 5.3, and so on. How do I do this? Also, does PostgreSQL support SPL or any sort of procedural language? I'd like to write the following (highly-recursive) function: f(x) = (x*x/120-1/6)*x*x+1)*x for 0<=x<1.57 f(x) = f(3.14-x) for 1.57<=x<=3.14 f(x) = -f(x-3.14) for 3.14<=x<6.28 f(x) = f(x-6.28) for x>=6.28 f(x) = f(x+6.28) for x<0 (this is roughly the sin() function). In SPL, I could write this something like: IF (x<1.57) RETURN (SELECT (x*x/120-1/6)*x*x+1)*x as ANSWER); IF (x>=1.57 AND x<=3.14) RETURN (SELECT f(3.14-x) as ANSWER); ... and so on. Does PostgreSQL support anything like that? If not, is there an SQL query which will give me the function I want?
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