Re: Trouble porting a Oracle PL/SQL procedure to PL/pgSQL--THANKS!

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:42:54 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Tony G. Harris wrote:
> >> The problem is, when I call the function, I get:
> >> sql-practice=# select update_pay();
> >> ERROR: pay_cursor: no such class
> >> WARNING: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of update_pay near line
> 2
> >> ERROR: pay_cursor: no such class
>
> > I think it's complaining because you can't use
> pay_cursor%ROWTYPE.
>
> Yeah, you're right. I didn't believe that theory at first because
> the line number reference didn't point at the line with %ROWTYPE
> ...
> but upon digging into it I find that plpgsql's code for determining
> the line number to report is flat wrong for this case. (I've
> committed
> a quick fix into CVS tip, but I wonder whether the whole mechanism
> shouldn't be rethought. Calling plpgsql_scanner_lineno() all over
> the
> place doesn't seem real clean.)
>
> > Maybe declaring IndRec as being of type record may work (don't
> know
> > for certain).
>
> That's what I'd try. We don't consider that declaring a cursor
> creates
> a named rowtype ... I'm surprised that Oracle seems to think it
> does.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

Stephan, Tom,

Thank you both for your insights. You were right, Stephan, declaring
IndRec as a RECORD type
worked ! That and a couple other no doubt "quick and dirty" fixes and
the function ran exactly how it was supposed to.

Again, thank you both, and everyone on the pgsql-SQL list for all the
help.

Tony

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