On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:50:48AM +1000, Jon wrote: > I'd like to run some scripts against a postgres database but has more > than just standard SQL commands. I'd like to be able to use conditional > statements (i.e. if .. .then ... ) and such. I had a look and can see > that I could use pgplsql for this. However it seems that it must be part > of a function. Is there any way of doing this without the function > coating as these commands would be a once off? PostgreSQL's implementation of SQL doesn't have control structures (aside from simple conditionals like CASE expressions), so you'll have to write a server-side function in a language like PL/pgSQL or do the control in client-side code. -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
