On 06/02/2015 03:10 AM, Filipe Pina wrote:
> HI Adrian,
>
> I had a typo in the email:
>
> INSERT INTO my_table VALUES(my_table.*);
>
> was actually
>
> INSERT INTO my_table VALUES(my_var.*);
Aah, that is different:)
>
> So I meant to insert the variable I had in memory (dict representing a row), not the rows from the table..
So where is the variable getting its data?
Or can we see a simple example of what you are trying to do?
>
>> On 02/06/2015, at 01:44, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/01/2015 07:42 AM, Filipe Pina wrote:
>>> Thanks for the reply anyway, it's a pity though, it'd be useful..
>>>
>>> Another bump I've found along the pl/python road: insert ROWTYPE in table..
>>> Maybe you have some hint on that? :)
>>>
>>> So, in PLPGSQL I can:
>>>
>>> DECLARE
>>> my_var my_table;
>>> BEGIN
>>> my_var.col1 := 'asd';
>>> INSERT INTO my_table VALUES(my_table.*);
>>> END;
>>>
>>> How would I do something like that in pl/python?
>>>
>>> First, how to declare a ROW-TYPE variable, as they're all python mappings?
>>>
>>> my_var = { 'col1': 'asd' } enough? it'd would miss all the other columns...
>>>
>>> Second, how to insert it?
>>>
>>> plpy.prepare and .execute say they don't support composite types, so I
>>> cannot simply pass
>>>
>>> pl = plpy.prepare('INSERT INTO core_customer VALUES ($1)', ['my_table'])
>>>
>>> Any workarounds for this? (meaning I wouldn't have to specify any
>>> columns in the insert statement)
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/sql-insert.html
>>
>> pl = plpy.prepare('INSERT INTO core_table SELECT * FROM my_table')
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Sex, Mai 29, 2015 at 2:00 , Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/15 10:52 AM, Filipe Pina wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But one of the functions I need to create needs to accept an array
>>>> of records.
>>>>
>>>> PL/Python doesn't support that. Some more code needs to be written to
>>>> support that. You did everything correctly. I don't know of a good
>>>> workaround.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>
>
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