RE: Problems w/ PL/pgSQL not being loaded?

From: "Diehl, Jeffrey" <jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov>
To: "'Philip Hallstrom'" <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com>, "Diehl, Jeffrey" <jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Problems w/ PL/pgSQL not being loaded?
Date: 2001-04-17 23:26:22
Message-ID: B51F0C636E578A4E832D3958690CD73E0130BEB3@es04snlnt
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Yup.

Took me all of 15 minutes to do this and test it.

Thanx much,
Mike Diehl,
Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
284-3137
jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hallstrom [mailto:philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com]
> Sent: April 17, 2001 5:02 PM
> To: Diehl, Jeffrey
> Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: Problems w/ PL/pgSQL not being loaded?
>
>
> I just did this in 7.1 (and I think it's pretty similar in 7.0.x).
>
> cd into the src/pl/plpgsql directory and type "gmake && gmake install"
>
> Then as the postgres super user type "createlang plpgsql dbname"
>
> where "dbname" is the name of the database you want to add it to.
>
> If you add it to template1 then all new databases will
> automatically get
> it.
>
> good luck!
>
> -philip
>
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Diehl, Jeffrey wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Once again, I'm trying to climb the learning curve...
> >
> > I'm trying to write a trigger in PL/pgSQL to update some
> tables. When I try
> > to load the function, I get an error message:
> >
> > The function is:
> >
> > create function update_modified () returns opauqe as '
> > BEGIN
> > NEW.modified := ''now()'';
> > return 1;
> > END;
> > '
> > language 'plpgsql';
> >
> > The error message indicates that I'm trying to us an
> unrecognized language.
> > The recognized languages are sql, C, internal and other
> created languages.
> > I've not loaded anything besides the default.
> >
> > 1. How do I load PL/pgSQL?
> >
> > 2. Does this function look right? It should change the
> a.modified field
> > upon update.
> >
> > Thanx again,
> > Mike Diehl,
> > Network Monitoring Tool Devl.
> > 284-3137
> > jdiehl(at)sandia(dot)gov
> >
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