Re: Questions on dynamic execution and sqlca - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Questions on dynamic execution and sqlca
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Msg-id CAECtzeWDz1RBfzQbb7KUyrLVrXuAGOuPUkyoGUF9x3+HGT1CNQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Questions on dynamic execution and sqlca  (David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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2014-08-07 7:24 GMT+02:00 David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>:


> > - What are the differences among PL/SQL,  PL/PGSQL and pgScript.
>
> The first two are languages you write functions in.  pgScript is simply an
> informal way to group a series of statements together and have them execute
> within a transaction.
>

AFAICT, this isn't true. Pgscript is a client specific language. There is a whole description of what it can do in pgadmin's manual. This was interesting when PostgreSQL didn't have the DO statement. Now that we do, it's rather pointless.



​Yeah, I probably should have either researched the answer or just left it alone.  I am not all that familiar with pgAdmin - I figured it was just a souped up script runner with maybe a couple of features like variables but otherwise allowing only SQL commands.


No problem :)

pgscript reference is available on http://pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/pgscript.html.

Note that pgScript isn't specific to pgAdmin, AFAIK.


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