Re: Create table in functions

Hi, there,

I don't think that you can use DDL in PL/pgSQL, normally say , you can
only use DML in PL/pgSQL.
i.e. you can use select into,update,delete,insert ... , but you cannot use
create, alter, grant ...


Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I striped down my function up to a strange thing:
>
> web=# create function pHelpTable( )
> web-#   returns int
> web-#   As '
> web'#     Begin
> web'#       Create Table Temp_NumTable  ( Num int ) ;
> web'#
> web'#       return 17 ;
> web'#     End; '
> web-#   language 'plpgsql' ;
> CREATE
> web=#
> web=# select pHelpTable( );
> ERROR:  copyObject: don't know how to copy 611
> web=#
>
> What does this mean?  The ERROR is caused by the Create Table statement
> (when I removed it from my complex function it worked well).
> So why doesn't this work and what copy function fails here??
>
> Kind regards
>
>           Andreas.

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