Dear Hackers
I've been using SPI to execute some queries and this time I've tried to
issue CREATE TABLE commands through SPI. I've been getting the message
"ERROR: CREATE TABLE AS is not allowed in a non-volatile function".
I'm a bit confused because my functions are set as volatile when I got
that result. I was sure I'd be able to issue CREATE TABLE through SPI
because a possible return value of SPI_execute is SPI_OK_UTILITY if a
utility command such as CREATE TABLE was executed.
Maybe the caveat is the following. I am actually invoking my function
through CREATE LANGUAGE's inline handler using an anonymous do block. So
maybe I need to take some additional considerations for this reason?
The following is what my functions look like:
CREATE FUNCTION myLanguage.myLanguage_function_call_handler()
RETURNS language_handler
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME','myLanguage_function_call_handler'
LANGUAGE C VOLATILE;
CREATE FUNCTION myLanguage.myLanguage_inline_function_handler(internal)
RETURNS void
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME','myLanguage_inline_function_handler'
LANGUAGE C VOLATILE;
CREATE LANGUAGE myLanguage
HANDLER myLanguage.myLanguage_function_call_handler
INLINE myLanguage.myLanguage_inline_function_handler;
COMMENT ON LANGUAGE myLanguage IS 'My Language';
Have I correctly approached the issue? Maybe there is a workaround?
Best regards
Tom
