Re: PL argument max size, and doubt

On Nov 21, 2007 8:23 AM, Martin Marques <martin(at)marquesminen(dot)com(dot)ar> wrote:
> (BTW, which it that limit if it exists?).

"In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored
is about 1 GB."

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/datatype-character.html

> So I made the function to test:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION datoGrande(TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $body$
> BEGIN
> EXECUTE $ins1$
> INSERT INTO funcdatogrande VALUES (default,$ins1$ ||
> quote_literal($1) || $ins2$)$ins2$;
> IF FOUND THEN
> RETURN TRUE;
> ELSE
> RETURN FALSE;
> END IF;
> END;
> $body$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
>
> What bothers me is that the INSERT passes ok (the data is inserted) but
> the function is returning false on any all to it. I hope not to have a
> conceptual problem.

I don't think EXECUTEing sets FOUND to true. Try:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
DATOGRANDE(TEXT)
RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $$
BEGIN
INSERT INTO FUNCDATOGRANDE VALUES (DEFAULT,$1);
IF FOUND THEN
RETURN TRUE;
ELSE
RETURN FALSE;
END IF;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE 'PLPGSQL';