Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> ?hel kenal p?eval, N, 2005-12-22 kell 18:19, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
> > Ashok Agrawal wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > Here is the requirements :
> > >
> > > 1. Development & Support team can ONLY have READ Only ACCESS
> > > to PRODUCTION Database. They will NOT have access to create
> > > stored procedure & functions in the PRODUCTION on the fly.
> > >
> > > 2. During application support, need to write script which
> > > uses procedural language (IF ELSE, AND , OR, Cursor, Loop etc)
> > > to produce results or identify/fix issues. Number of this kind of
> > > Requests goes in hundreds during Quarter end.
> > >
> > > Currently on Oracle as long as you have sqlplus read only access,
> > > you can write PL/SQL block and get the work done.
> > >
> > > Since postgres doesn't support procedural language except in
> > > stored objects like procedure/functions, how do I achieve in
> > > postgres without using stored objects. If this is not possible,
> > > then does it make sense to add this requirement into TO-DO list.
> >
> > So you want to write procedural code on the client.
>
> I guess he rather wants to have dont-save-but-execute-immediately
> pl/pgsql code.
>
> could this perhaps be solved by having temporary functions, similar to
> postgresql's temporary tables ?

I am thinking they want the ability to sit at a prompt and type stuff.

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