Re: writing a function without installing a language

On Friday 16. May 2008, ${spencer} wrote:
>is there a way to write a function without installing a specific
>language? all i need to do is write a function that can take 3 text's
>and put them into a list format (eg. "text1, text2 and text3" )
>
>can anyone help?

sandbox=> create function foo(text,text,text) returns text as $$
sandbox$> select $1 || ', ' || $2 || ', and ' || $3
sandbox$> $$ language sql stable;
CREATE FUNCTION
sandbox=> select foo('x','y','z');
     foo
-------------
 x, y, and z
(1 row)

sandbox=>
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