Re: PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions

On 18 Nov 2001 22:57:05 -0500, Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> wrote:
>
>     Aasmund> Well, to the best of my knowledge your question is a
>     Aasmund> contradiction in terms: plpgsql is a procedural language
>     Aasmund> to use it you must create a stored procedure or
>     Aasmund> function...
>
> Coming from an Oracle background, perhaps I don't see it the same
> way.  To merely *call* a PL/SQL procedure, I have to do something like
>
>     BEGIN
>         MYPROC (a, b, c)
>     END;
>
> So I *could* create a pl/pgsql function and call it like that, but
> since pl/pgsql procedures aren't compiled I wondered if I could do it
> inline.
I do believe they are compiled.
>
>     Aasmund> However you are probably able to do many of the things
>     Aasmund> you may want with plain old SQL look it up in the docs
>     Aasmund> especially the case structure.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion; I'll have a look at the case structure....
>
> roland
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