Обсуждение: Stored Procedure to Delete Rows and Return Count
I am (unfortunately) using PG 8.4
I have created a simple stored procedure to delete records from a table but while it deletes the records it does not return the number of rows deleted.
I experimented and searched The Internet, and came up with this solution.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testdel(integer) RETURNS bigint AS $$
with d as (delete from foo where id=$1 RETURNING *)
select count(*)
$$ LANGUAGE SQL;
Unfortunately this thinks that DELETE is a syntax error.
I tried the following SQL statement in phpPgAdmin (found in an answer on stackoverflow.com). This also conforms to my understanding of WITH Queries, PostgreSQL Documentation 8.4.22
WITH d AS (DELETE FROM foo WHERE id='1' RETURNING *) SELECT count(*);
and the result was a syntax error on the keyword DELETE, as above.
This statement was accepted as working in stackoverflow.com, but doesn't work for me.
Can someone give me a clue how this can be done and confirm that their solution has been tested so I know it's my end that has the problem, or better yet tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks
Dave
On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Dave Bolt <dave@davebolt.co.uk> wrote:I am (unfortunately) using PG 8.4I have created a simple stored procedure to delete records from a table but while it deletes the records it does not return the number of rows deleted.I experimented and searched The Internet, and came up with this solution.CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testdel(integer) RETURNS bigint AS $$with d as (delete from foo where id=$1 RETURNING *)select count(*)$$ LANGUAGE SQL;Unfortunately this thinks that DELETE is a syntax error.I tried the following SQL statement in phpPgAdmin (found in an answer on stackoverflow.com). This also conforms to my understanding of WITH Queries, PostgreSQL Documentation 8.4.22WITH d AS (DELETE FROM foo WHERE id='1' RETURNING *) SELECT count(*);and the result was a syntax error on the keyword DELETE, as above.This statement was accepted as working in stackoverflow.com, but doesn't work for me.Can someone give me a clue how this can be done and confirm that their solution has been tested so I know it's my end that has the problem, or better yet tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Вложения
On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:50 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Dave Bolt <dave@davebolt.co.uk> wrote:Can someone give me a clue how this can be done and confirm that their solution has been tested so I know it's my end that has the problem, or better yet tell me what I'm doing wrong.Being able to use a DELETE in a CTE was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.1.
Вложения
I am (unfortunately) using PG 8.4
with d as (delete from foo where id=$1 RETURNING *)
select count(*)
Thanks Jonathan, spot on.
Stuck with PG 8.4 at the moment on the target server. Really hope the production server will be up to date. Couldn't see any indication in the documentation that there was a difference between 9.anything and 8.4, hence the confusion.
Meanwhile, your solution is exactly what I need for now.
Dave
From: Jonathan S. Katz [mailto:jonathan.katz@excoventures.com]
Sent: 29 August 2018 22:56
To: Dave Bolt
Cc: pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Stored Procedure to Delete Rows and Return Count
On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:50 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Dave Bolt <dave@davebolt.co.uk> wrote:
Can someone give me a clue how this can be done and confirm that their solution has been tested so I know it's my end that has the problem, or better yet tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Being able to use a DELETE in a CTE was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.1.
Borrowing from an old post[1] I made this little function:
CREATE FUNCTION delete_stuff (y int)
RETURNS int
AS $$
DECLARE
deleted int;
BEGIN
DELETE FROM a WHERE x = y;
GET DIAGNOSTICS deleted = ROW_COUNT;
RETURN deleted;
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
which returns the total # of rows deleted by the above query, which seems like
it could be adapted for your purposes.
Hope this helps,
Jonathan