Re: CallableStatements

But what do you do if you want to call a stored procedure and NOT get a
result?

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Barry Lind wrote:

> As Dave has said, since stored procedures in Postgres can only return a
> single value, there is little to be gained from CallableStatements that
> you can't already do with regular Statements or PreparedStatements.
>
> The way to call stored procedures in postgres is via a select statement.
> Thus to call procedure foo(), you would issue the query 'select
> foo()'. Since this is a standard select statement, you can use either a
> regular Statement or PreparedStatement to get the result of this stored
> procedure.
>
> Having said that, if you wanted to contribute a CallableStatement
> implementation for postgres we would be glad to accept it. Remember
> that this is an open source project, features get added by people who
> want or need them. If you need CallableStatements implement them an
> submit a patch.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
>
>
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > Well, given that postgres doesn't support the notion of returning a
> > result set from a stored procedure; I'm not sure what benefit this would
> > be.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave
> >
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> > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:47 PM
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> > Subject: [JDBC] CallableStatements
> >
> >
> > CallableStatements weren't in Postgres as of the last time I checked,
> > version 7.1.
> >
> > The JDBC specification has lots of goodies in it, such as examining a
> > server's metadata and sending cursors backwards and forwards over result
> > sets. However, from the perspective of a Java programmer,
> > CallableStatements are essential tools for communicating with a database
> > server.
> >
> > Without the benefit of CallableStatements, all efforts at efficiency are
> > wasted. The hallmark of any robust system is distributed processing,
> > which requires invoking stored procedures on foreign machines. Doing so
> > through CallableStatements would
> > (a) accomplish work and (b) retrieve a result code in one logical
> > network transmission. Without CallableStatements, retrieving the result
> > code not only requires more programming infrastructure, but also taxes
> > the application at runtime as the Java application tries to discover
> > what the result of the stored procedure was. This method requires an
> > additional deletion to purge the logged result code record, lest the log
> > grow, slowing searches. Therefore, we are looking at considerably more
> > processing done, 2 or 3 transmissions, where 1 should suffice.
> >
> > Consequently, I would hope that CallableStatements are recognized as a
> > very important part of the JDBC puzzle.
> >
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Stuart Robinson [stuart(at)zapata(dot)org]