Thread: Error working with Temporary Sequences in plpgsql in 8.1 (8.0 works fine)

Hi,

here is a testcase:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$
BEGINCREATE TEMP SEQUENCE test;PERFORM testseq1();DROP SEQUENCE test;RETURN;
END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq() OWNER TO postgres;


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq1() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$
DECLARE I INTEGER;
BEGINI:= nextval('test');RETURN;
END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq1() OWNER TO postgres;


SELECT testseq();

-- this works fine.

SELECT testseq();


ERROR:  could not open relation with OID 21152
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "testseq1" line 3 at assignment
SQL statement "SELECT  testseq1()"
PL/pgSQL function "testseq" line 3 at perform



Greetings,

Daniel.

On 1/17/06, Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is a testcase:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq()
>  RETURNS void AS
> $BODY$
> BEGIN
>  CREATE TEMP SEQUENCE test;
>  PERFORM testseq1();
>  DROP SEQUENCE test;
>  RETURN;
> END; $BODY$
>  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
> ALTER FUNCTION testseq() OWNER TO postgres;
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq1()
>  RETURNS void AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE I INTEGER;
> BEGIN
>  I:= nextval('test');
>  RETURN;
> END; $BODY$
>  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
> ALTER FUNCTION testseq1() OWNER TO postgres;
>
>
> SELECT testseq();
>
> -- this works fine.
>
> SELECT testseq();
>
>
> ERROR:  could not open relation with OID 21152
> CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "testseq1" line 3 at assignment
> SQL statement "SELECT  testseq1()"
> PL/pgSQL function "testseq" line 3 at perform
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Daniel.
>

try this way:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$BEGIN EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMP SEQUENCE test'; PERFORM testseq1(); DROP SEQUENCE test; RETURN;END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq() OWNER TO postgres;


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq1() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$DECLARE I INTEGER;BEGIN EXECUTE 'select nextval(''test'')' INTO I;
raise notice '%', I; RETURN;END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq1() OWNER TO postgres;

SELECT testseq();
SELECT testseq();


is the same problem as with temp tables, you must put their creation,
and in this case even the nextval in an execute...

--
regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:28:03PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> is the same problem as with temp tables, you must put their creation,
> and in this case even the nextval in an execute...

Curious that it works in 8.0, though.  I wonder if the failure in
8.1 is an artifact of changing sequence functions like nextval()
to take a regclass argument (the sequence OID) instead of a text
argument (the sequence name); that would affect what gets put in
the function's cached plan.

-- 
Michael Fuhr

A nice workaraound because

EXECUTE 'select nextval(''test'')' INTO I;

doesnt work in 8.0 seems to be:

myid:=nextval('stvtrsid_seq'::TEXT);


This seems to work in every case.


Daniel


Jaime Casanova schrieb:

try this way:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$BEGIN EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMP SEQUENCE test'; PERFORM testseq1(); DROP SEQUENCE test; RETURN;END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq() OWNER TO postgres;


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testseq1() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$DECLARE I INTEGER;BEGIN EXECUTE 'select nextval(''test'')' INTO I;
raise notice '%', I; RETURN;END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION testseq1() OWNER TO postgres;

SELECT testseq();
SELECT testseq();


is the same problem as with temp tables, you must put their creation,
and in this case even the nextval in an execute...

--
regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)