Thread: Questions about anonymous procedure/function.

Greetings,

I have a question about whether I am able to create an *anonymous*
procedure/function under postgreSQL 8. Something like:

Begin
   ... ...
   update ...
   IF ... THEN
   rollback
   END IF;
   ... ...
END;

I'd like to do a series of operations. If any one of the opers failed,
all previous operation will rollback. Actually, I do not want to create
named functions. Just used the structure for different tables with minor
changes.


Another question is about how to create a function/procedure do not need
a return value (void for return value). It seems that postgreSQL forces
to return some value?

Thanks a lot!
Emi

Ying Lu wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a question about whether I am able to create an *anonymous*
> procedure/function under postgreSQL 8. Something like:
>
> Begin
>   ... ...
>   update ...
>   IF ... THEN
>   rollback
>   END IF;
>   ... ...
> END;

No

> I'd like to do a series of operations. If any one of the opers failed,
> all previous operation will rollback.

Well that's just a transaction.

 > Actually, I do not want to create
> named functions. Just used the structure for different tables with minor
> changes.

Create your function, call it, drop it.

> Another question is about how to create a function/procedure do not need
> a return value (void for return value). It seems that postgreSQL forces
> to return some value?

Just return a boolean.

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