Re: pgScript patch based on pgScript-1.0-beta-3

On Thu, August 14, 2008 02:00, Mickael Deloison wrote:

> There is a new patch for pgAdmin that includes pgScript. Maybe the

> Everything is here: http://pgscript.projects.postgresql.org/pgadmin/

Hi Mickael,

I played a bit with pgScript; I like it. Here are a few observations:

1) It would be nice if pgScript would only execute a select-block, like the
normal pgAdmin querytool does.

2) The example script from the url above says:

IF (SELECT 1 FROM table) -- Then table exists

which is only true if the table has rows, which of course initially it hasn't.
This totally confounds the pgScript newbie ;-) Maybe it can be changed to:

IF (SELECT count(*) FROM table) -- Then table exists

Now it will NOT fail when table exist, but is empty.

This will make the snippet executable with pressing repeated F6.

3) When the BEGIN - END block fails, pgScript executes the ELSE block. This
seems questionable behaviour, no? It can be seen with that same
above-mentioned script. (in the original 'IF (SELECT 1 FROM table)' form )

Great project - keep up the good work!

Erikjan Rijkers