Re: execute block like Firebird does

Am 11.02.2018 um 06:57 schrieb PegoraroF10:
> We are migrating our databases from Firebird to PostGres. A useful feature
> Firebird has is Execute Block.
> What it does is just return a record set from that dynamic SQL, just like a
> PostGres function, but without creating it.
> It sound like ...
> execute block returns(ID Integer, Name varchar(50), LastInvoice Date, ...)
> as
> begin
> select bla, bla, bla into ...;
> select bla, bla into ...;
> suspend;
> end
> I know we could create a function but we have several hundred of these
> blocks running, so ... it would be a huge work to do.
> So, there is a way to run a dynamic sql which returns a set of records ?

you can use a DO - block:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-do.html

Regards, Andreas

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