Re: Tool to ease development of plpgsql

Would a tool like www.presicient.com/teraforge be of value ?
I'm thinking of making a Pg port....if interested, please
let me know, and let me know what kind of features
you'd like to see...

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Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
www.presicient.com

"Richard Huxton" <dev@archonet.com> wrote in message
news:200401181512.22916.dev@archonet.com...
> On Friday 16 January 2004 22:52, bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com
wrote:
> > What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.
> >
> > My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.
>
> I personally use kate (on KDE) or vi, but any syntax-hightlighting editor
can
> help. I don't use anything fancy, just make sure the highlighting picks up
> quoting / comments.
> Edit the file with your function and use \i from psql to test it - that'll
> give you line numbers for errors too.
> ALWAYS make sure your variables/parameters have names that are different
from
> columns in queries.
>
> Having done a _lot_ of plpgsql in the last few months, what irritates from
my
> end is:
> 1. Can't EXPLAIN inside a function
> 2. Error reporting not always useful
> 3. To work around the EXPLAIN problem I copy/paste SQL from my function,
at
> which time I have to unfix the quoting, then paste it back and refix the
> quoting...
>
> Anyway - there is the possiblilty that something a bit like shell/perl
HERE
> documents might exist in 7.5 which'll make the quoting problem go away.
>
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