I'd write a trigger that generate a function. This is done for performance reasons. The function will be called several times and it is a list of delete statement according to the content of a table. The content of the table will seldom change and it is linked to the creation of other tables (metadata of other tables) and I want to provide a consistent interface to the downstream developers (if any in the future) and me. Since the code inside the function is getting a bit longer than what I was used I'm getting crazy about double quotes, syntax highlight and such. I'm using pg 7.4 so $$ trick shouldn't work. Do you have any advice about dynamically generated functions? Starting from a good vi/kate/whatever syntax highlighter to coding tricks to make the process less painful? Even if this is just the framework it looks enough unreadable create or replace function SP_GarbageCollectionGenerate( ) returns bool as ' begin execute ''create or replace SP_GarbageCollection( '' || '')'' || ''returns bool as '''' -- what a mess! || begin return null; end; '' language plpgsql; end; ' language plpgsql; thx -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
