Re: [GENERAL] Looking for information on PostgreSQL Stored Procedures

Ok, I tried it in that I'm still getting errors.  Happy to do so but
well is my errors?

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas McNaught [mailto:doug@mcnaught.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:39 AM
To: Foster, Stephen
Cc: 'Michael Fuhr'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org;
pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Looking for information on PostgreSQL
Stored Procedures

"Foster, Stephen" <stephenlfoster@comcast.net> writes:

> WHILE (--Lost on variable name for end of query; EmptyQueryResponse <>
> 0? --)
>     BEGIN
>         IF LastName = fname THEN
>             DELETE FROM MailingList WHERE id = id;
>         END IF;
>         LastName := fname;
>         FETCH NEXT FROM NewListCursor INTO fname, id;
>     END;
> CLOSE NewListCursor;
> $BODY$
> LANGUAGE 'sql' VOLATILE;

You can't do any looping or other control structures in an SQL
function.  Use PL/pgSQL instead.

-Doug

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