Re: Porting Oracle Packages

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:54:49AM +0530, Unnikrishnan Menon wrote:
> 
> 1.I have a package in Oracle to be ported to PostgreSQL. 
>    The package consists of three procedures.
>     Anybody could give any suggestion on the porting methodology.

Josh already pointed you to the docs, so I won't do it again :)
> 2. Any idea as to what is the equivalent of the following Oracle code in Postgresql:
> 
> Type xyz is Table of userid.user_account%type index by binary_integer;
> prev_id xyz;
> dummy xyz;

There's no structure in PL/pgSQL or any of the PostgreSQL procedural
languages that will map directly to this.

I remember I ported procedures with "type foo is Table of bar..." using
PL/Tcl arrays once, but it wasn't pretty.

Best thing is to think what are you trying to _accomplish_ with the
procedure, and then re-write it as a PL/pgSQL function.

-Roberto 

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