Re: PL/PGSQL - character varying as function argument

On 26/09/2008 14:41, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION user_checkCredentials(character varying)
> RETURNS character varying AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE
>      username ALIAS FOR $1;

I meant to say too that in pl/pgsql, you can use argument names directly
(unless you're using a *really* old version of PostgreSQL), making your
code easier to read:

create function user_checkCredentials(username character varying)
returns character varying as
$$
declare
  permission character varying;
begin
  select into permission permtype from users
    where uid = username;
  return permtype;
end
$$
language plpgsql;

I'd also use "character varying" for "permtype"; there's no need to use
a record as you're only only getting a single column.

Ray.

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