Re: Anonymous code block with parameters

From: Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kalyanov Dmitry <kalyanov(dot)dmitry(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Anonymous code block with parameters
Date: 2014-09-17 20:07:21
Message-ID: 5419E9F9.90703@dalibo.com
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On 09/16/2014 10:09 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 10:57 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 09/16/2014 03:15 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>>> Why we don't introduce a temporary functions instead?
>>
>> I think that'd be a lot cleaner and simpler. It's something I've
>> frequently wanted, and as Hekki points out it's already possible by
>> creating the function in pg_temp, there just isn't the syntax sugar for
>> "CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION".
>>
>> So why not just add "CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION"?
>
> Sure, why not.

Because you still have to do

SELECT pg_temp.my_temp_function(blah);

to execute it.

>> It means two steps:
>>
>> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION ... $$ $$;
>>
>> SELECT my_temp_function(blah);

That won't work; see above.
--
Vik

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