Re: PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Aasmund Midttun Godal
Subject Re: PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions
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In response to PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions  (Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>)
Responses Re: PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions  (Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>)
Re: [DOCS] PL/pgSQL examples NOT involving functions  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Well, to the best of my knowledge your question is a contradiction in terms:

plpgsql is a procedural language to use it you must create a stored procedure or function...

However you are probably able to do many of the things you may want with plain old SQL look it up in the docs
especiallythe case structure. 

Regards,

Aasmund.
On 15 Nov 2001 11:49:12 -0500, Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> wrote:
> How can I write a few lines of PL/pgSQL which do not involve creating
> a function?  I can find no examples of this in the docs, but say I
> would like to do something like
>
>     BEGIN
>     IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM foo WHERE idx = 27)
>     THEN
>         UPDATE foo SET var='some value' WHERE idx=27;
>     ELSE
>         INSERT INTO foo (idx, var) VALUES (27, 'some value');
>     END IF
>     END;
>
> roland
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