Re: validation of postgresql functions

I never found a way. Instead I hacked up a general stored proceedure
testbed. I was going to release it when I had some time to make it
somewhat clean, but if you're desperate for something now I can give you
what I've got....

On 29 Sep 2003, giant food wrote:

> Hi, I'm in the process of converting an Oracle database into
> postgresql. One thing I've noticed is that postgresql functions keep
> the entire function body in a string, e.g.:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_do_something(varchar, numeric, varchar)
>   RETURNS varchar AS
> '
> ...
> '
>   LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
> The problem I'm having with this is that I can never find any errors
> in my functions until runtime, unlike with Oracle where the "create
> function" script will fail if, for example, I misspelled a table name.
>
> Is there any way to force postgresql to compile functions, without
> running them first?
>
> --Frank
>
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