Re: anonymous block in Postgres - Hello World

Coming from Oracle world, I also was missing the ability to execute anonymous blocks.
So I wrote this function:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION exec_plpgsql_block(exec_string text)
RETURNS BOOLEAN
AS $THIS$
DECLARE lRet BOOLEAN;
BEGIN
EXECUTE 'CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION any_block()
RETURNS VOID
AS $$ ' || exec_string || ' $$LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;' ;
PERFORM any_block();
RETURN TRUE;
END;
$THIS$LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;

to which I pass my "anonymous" block as a parameter.
As you can see, this function creates/replaces "on the fly" function "any_block()" and executes it.
Pretty simple solution.

Igor Neyman

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:12 AM
To: Abraham, Danny
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org; Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] anonymous block in Postgres - Hello World

"Abraham, Danny" <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com> writes:
> This code is my first "like Oracle anonymous blocl". It does not go =
> through.

There are no anonymous blocks in Postgres --- you must create a function.

regards, tom lane

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