Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> I have a similar problem and already considered using RULEs, but I
>> encountered the problem, that I did not find any way to execute
>> procedures from RULEs without using SELECT, which creates always a
>> result set being passed to the application invoking the INSERT,
>> UPDATE or DELETE, even if the function is declared VOID. This is
>> causing trouble when using asynchronous command processing.
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> The solution then is for us to get around to implementing procedures,
> rather than functions, in PostgreSQL I think.
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> Chris
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Yes, I think that this would be a good way to solve the problem, but is
it planned to implement procedures in near future?
What about extending the SQL command set by an "INVOKE" command, which
invokes a function and discards the result?
Jan Behrens