Re: plpgsql howto question

From: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>
To: "Joost Kraaijeveld" <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql howto question
Date: 2004-12-23 15:27:20
Message-ID: 200412231627.20577.ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl
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Hi Joost,

> What is the correct way of doing this?

As 'always', there's more than one way of doing this, for example
- selecting into a var and returning that var
- selecting into a record and returning the proper field of that record
- return the proper values immediately
- use 'plain' sql in combination with a case statement

Some examples:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getcustomername(text, int4)
RETURNS text AS
'
DECLARE
my_person TEXT;
my_company RECORD;
BEGIN
IF $2 = 1 THEN
SELECT INTO my_person lastname FROM person WHERE objectid = $1;
RETURN my_person;
ELSIF $2 = 2 THEN
SELECT INTO my_company name1 from company WHERE objectid = $1;
RETURN my_company.name1;
END IF;
END
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

*****

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getcustomername(text, int4)
RETURNS text AS
'
DECLARE
my_id ALIAS FOR $1;
my_type ALIAS FOR $2;
BEGIN
IF my_type = 1 THEN
RETURN my_person lastname FROM person WHERE objectid = my_id;
ELSIF my_type = 2 THEN
RETURN name1 from company WHERE objectid = my_id;
END IF;
END
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

*****

SELECT CASE
WHEN type = 1 THEN (SELECT person)
WHEN type = 2 THEN (SELECT company)
ELSE null
END;

(albeit this is not plpgsql anymore)

Obviously you want to choose one of the approaches ;)

NB. Prettige kerstdagen alvast !

--
Best,

Frank.

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