Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements

Rod Taylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 11:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> > nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org (Neil Conway) writes:
> > > Regarding the syntax for EXECUTE, it occurs to me that it could be made
> > > to be more similar to the PREPARE syntax -- i.e.
> >
> > > PREPARE foo(text, int) AS ...;
> >
> > > EXECUTE foo('a', 1);
> >
> > > (rather than EXECUTE USING -- the effect being that prepared statements
> > > now look more like function calls on a syntactical level, which I think
> > > is okay.)
> >
> > Hmm, maybe *too* much like a function call. Is there any risk of a
> > conflict with syntax that we might want to use to invoke stored
> > procedures? If not, this is fine with me.
>
> Stored procedures would use PERFORM would they not?
>
> I like the function syntax. It looks and acts like a temporary 'sql'
> function.

FWIW, Oracle uses EXECUTE to execute stored procedures. It is not apart
of the SQL language, but a SQL*Plus command:

EXECUTE my_procedure();

The Oracle call interface defines a function to call stored procedures:

OCIStmtExecute();

Likewise, the privilege necessary to execute a stored procedure is
'EXECUTE' as in:

GRANT EXECUTE ON my_procedure TO mascarm;

Again, FWIW.

Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com