Re: How to plpgsql scripting

[Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx>]

st 25. 3. 2020 v 13:20 odesílatel Ekaterina Amez <ekaterina.amez@xxxxxxxxxxx> napsal:

Hi List,

I'm used to make my own scripts in Oracle plsql, Sql Server tsql... but I'm unable to make one simple script in Postgres.

Objective version is 8.4 (I know, I know... it's a legacy server, I'm planning upgrade this server as soon as I can).

I have a test server with 9.2 version where I've succesfully run this code from psql:

DO $$
DECLARE 
   a integer := 10; 
   b integer := 20; 
   c integer; 
BEGIN 
   c := a + b;
    RAISE NOTICE'Value of c: %', c;
END $$;

But this syntax is (anonymous code block?) is available since 9.0 so I'm trying to adapt this to v8.4

you cannot to do this.

If you want to use plpgsql in older releases, you should to write functions and then run these functions.

A per documentation [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/plpgsql-structure.html], the structure of a code block is defined as:

yes, but the block must be wrapped by some SQL statement - in 8.4, by CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION

[ <<label>> ]
[ DECLARE
    declarations ]
BEGIN
    statements
END [ label ];

so I've adapted my code to:

DECLARE 
   a integer;
   b integer;
   c integer;
BEGIN 
    a := 10;
    b := 20;
    c := a + b;
    RAISE NOTICE'Value of c: %', c;
END ;

But when I run this from psql, both versions 8.4 and 9.2, all I get is:

testdb=# DECLARE 
testdb-#    a integer;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «integer»
LINE 2:    a integer;
              ^
testdb=#    b integer;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «b»
LINE 1: b integer;
         ^
testdb=#    c integer;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «c»
LINE 1: c integer;
         ^
testdb=# BEGIN 
testdb-# a := 10;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «a»
LINE 2: a := 10;
         ^
testdb=# b := 20;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «b»
LINE 1: b := 20;
         ^
testdb=#    c := a + b;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «c»
LINE 1: c := a + b;
         ^
testdb=#     RAISE NOTICE'Value of c: %', c;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near «RAISE»
LINE 1: RAISE NOTICE'Value of c: %', c;
         ^
testdb=# END;
WARNING:  no hay una transacción en curso
COMMIT
testdb=#

NOTE: I've translated error messages myself.

What's wrong with the syntax? Or is not possible to make a script and I have to create a function to encapsulate my code?

just this is not supported feature.

You have some special reason why you use 8.4? It's pretty old unsupported version.

Regards

Pavel

Kind regards,

Ekaterina