Re: Re: Please help me to take a look of the erros in my functions. Thanks.

On 04/03/2012 07:01 AM, leaf_yxj wrote:
> ***********************************************************
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION truncate_t (IN tablename text)
> RETURNS VOID
> AS
> $$
> BEGIN
>     EXECUTE 'TRUNCATE TABLE ' || quote_ident(tablename) || 'CASCADE;';
> EXCEPTION
>     WHEN undefined_table THEN
>         RAISE EXCEPTION 'Table "%" does not exists', tablename;
> END;
> $$
> LANGUAGE plpgsql SECURITY DEFINER STRICT;
>
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>
> This works . Thank you very much.
>
>
> ***********************************************************
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION truncate_t (tablename text)
> RETURNS VOID
> AS
> $$
> BEGIN
>     EXECUTE 'TRUNCATE TABLE ' || quote_ident(tablename) || 'CASCADE;';
> EXCEPTION
>     WHEN undefined_table THEN
>         RAISE EXCEPTION 'Table "%" does not exists', tablename;
> END;
> $$
> LANGUAGE plpgsql SECURITY DEFINER STRICT;
>
> ***********************************************************
> This works,too. Thank you very much.   What's the difference between ( IN
> tablename text)
> and ( tablename text).
>
>
>
> ---------- one more questions  thanks.
>
>
>
> After I created the function sucessfully , I want to execute the function. I
> get errors as follows :
>
> rrp=>  select truncate_t(t1);
> ERROR: column "t1" does not exist
> LINE 1 : select truncate_t(t1);
>                                      ^

You need to pass in a text value:

select truncate_t('t1');




>
>
>
> rrp=>  select truncate_t(rrp.t1);
> ERROR:missing FROM-clause entry for table "rrp"
> LINE 1 : select truncate_t(rrp.t1);
>                                      ^

Same above.

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