Re: Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Xtra Coder <xtracoder(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?
Date: 2016-08-16 19:59:43
Message-ID: CAFj8pRA+ghZe5WFspfoszRshvmWKeHZq9Mo7a8TjeDTXrsxggw@mail.gmail.com
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2016-08-16 21:50 GMT+02:00 Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>:

> On 8/16/16 11:17 AM, Chris Travers wrote:
>
>> I am thinking adding a temporary keyword to functions would make a lot
>> more sense.
>>
>
> Well, right now that's just syntactic sugar, so I think the only real
> benefit might be visibility (though, really we should be marketing the idea
> that you can create almost *any* object in pg_temp!).
>
> What would be a lot more interesting is if creating a temp function didn't
> involve writing an entry to the catalog (something being discussed for temp
> tables right now).
>

Oracle has interesting temporary function defined inside CTE

Pavel

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