Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL "compilation error" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL "compilation error"
Date
Msg-id 200103141606.LAA04452@candle.pha.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL "compilation error"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-docs
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:33:49AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > It is hard to test this without the table schema, but I think you are
> > missing some END IF's in the code above.  Those are not elif's, but
> > actual new IF's that need their own END IF, I think.
>
> Oh wow - this is almost like going back to my COBOL days.
>
>     IF NEW.status_id <> OLD.status_id THEN
>       IF new.status_id = 1 THEN
>         UPDATE artifact_counts_agg SET open_count=open_count+1 \
>           WHERE group_artifact_id=new.group_artifact_id;
>       ELSE
>         IF new.status_id = 2 THEN
>           UPDATE artifact_counts_agg SET open_count=open_count-1 \
>             WHERE group_artifact_id=new.group_artifact_id;
>         ELSE
>           IF new.status_id = 3 THEN
>             UPDATE artifact_counts_agg SET open_count=open_count-1,count=count-1 \
>               WHERE group_artifact_id=new.group_artifact_id;
>           END IF;
>         END IF;
>       END IF;
>     END IF;
>
> Yes - nesting those IFs did the trick. Are there more examples of PL/pgSQL
> anywhere beyond those on your website?
>
> Thanks, Bruce!
>

There is a PL/PgSQL HowTo that we are trying to integrate into the docs
for 7.1.  Anyone have a URL or status on that?

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026

pgsql-docs by date:

Previous
From: Pablo Gosse
Date:
Subject: missing page
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL "compilation error"