To expand on the Oracle implementation, the EXECUTE command in SQL*Plus
results in an anonymous pl/sql block (as opposed to a named procedure).
being sent over the wire such as the following:
begin
my_procedure();
end;
As mentioned in the previous post, the EXECUTE command is only a
SQL*Plus keyword (well, Server Manager too but that was killed in 9i).
Mike Mascari wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 11:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
>>>
>>>>Regarding the syntax for EXECUTE, it occurs to me that it could be made
>>>>to be more similar to the PREPARE syntax -- i.e.
>>>
>>>>PREPARE foo(text, int) AS ...;
>>>
>>>>EXECUTE foo('a', 1);
>>>
>>>>(rather than EXECUTE USING -- the effect being that prepared statements
>>>>now look more like function calls on a syntactical level, which I think
>>>>is okay.)
>>>
>>>Hmm, maybe *too* much like a function call. Is there any risk of a
>>>conflict with syntax that we might want to use to invoke stored
>>>procedures? If not, this is fine with me.
>>
>>Stored procedures would use PERFORM would they not?
>>
>>I like the function syntax. It looks and acts like a temporary 'sql'
>>function.
>
>
> FWIW, Oracle uses EXECUTE to execute stored procedures. It is not apart
> of the SQL language, but a SQL*Plus command:
>
> EXECUTE my_procedure();
>
> The Oracle call interface defines a function to call stored procedures:
>
> OCIStmtExecute();
>
> Likewise, the privilege necessary to execute a stored procedure is
> 'EXECUTE' as in:
>
> GRANT EXECUTE ON my_procedure TO mascarm;
>
> Again, FWIW.
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
>
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