| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Jon <jonov(at)iprimus(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Going beyond sql |
| Date: | 2005-08-05 14:03:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20050805140319.GA97890@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:50:48AM +1000, Jon wrote:
> I'd like to run some scripts against a postgres database but has more
> than just standard SQL commands. I'd like to be able to use conditional
> statements (i.e. if .. .then ... ) and such. I had a look and can see
> that I could use pgplsql for this. However it seems that it must be part
> of a function. Is there any way of doing this without the function
> coating as these commands would be a once off?
PostgreSQL's implementation of SQL doesn't have control structures
(aside from simple conditionals like CASE expressions), so you'll
have to write a server-side function in a language like PL/pgSQL
or do the control in client-side code.
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Michael Fuhr
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