Re: Question about function body checking and 8.1

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:04:42PM -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION mytest();
> RETURNS VOID as
> $$
> DECLARE
> mytestvar varchar;
> mytestvar2 integer;
> BEGIN
> mytestvarr = 'bla';
> select testfield from nonexistanttable where testfield = 2
> INTO mytestvar2;
> --The table does not exits, yet postgresql does not complain.
> END;
> $$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

This is at most a warning. Just because the table doesn't exist now
doesn't mean it won't exixt when the function is run. Need to be
careful here otherwise when restoring a dump you'll end up with lots of
useless errors because the tables were created after the functions...

Hope this helps,
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