Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres

I don't need ability to sit at a prompt and type stuff.

To be more clear, I am attaching one sample code. I would like to
migrate this code using postgres without converting into procedure
or function.

Thanks
Ashok

Bruce Momjian wrote On 12/22/05 15:35,:
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>>?hel kenal p?eval, N, 2005-12-22 kell 18:19, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
>>
>>>Ashok Agrawal wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi ,
>>>>
>>>>Here is the requirements :
>>>>
>>>>1. Development & Support team can ONLY have READ Only ACCESS
>>>> to PRODUCTION Database. They will NOT have access to create
>>>> stored procedure & functions in the PRODUCTION on the fly.
>>>>
>>>>2. During application support, need to write script which
>>>> uses procedural language (IF ELSE, AND , OR, Cursor, Loop etc)
>>>> to produce results or identify/fix issues. Number of this kind of
>>>> Requests goes in hundreds during Quarter end.
>>>>
>>>>Currently on Oracle as long as you have sqlplus read only access,
>>>>you can write PL/SQL block and get the work done.
>>>>
>>>>Since postgres doesn't support procedural language except in
>>>>stored objects like procedure/functions, how do I achieve in
>>>>postgres without using stored objects. If this is not possible,
>>>>then does it make sense to add this requirement into TO-DO list.
>>>
>>>So you want to write procedural code on the client.
>>
>>I guess he rather wants to have dont-save-but-execute-immediately
>>pl/pgsql code.
>>
>>could this perhaps be solved by having temporary functions, similar to
>>postgresql's temporary tables ?
>
>
> I am thinking they want the ability to sit at a prompt and type stuff.
>
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