Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres
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Msg-id 1135294351.3566.11.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Oracle PL/SQL Anonymous block equivalent in postgres
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Ühel kenal päeval, 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 ?

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Hannu



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