Are you not confused somewhere??

First you insert INSERT INTO db VALUES(1,'one');

Then you do this :

SELECT merge_db(1, 'two');

But for some reason this SQL select * from db; selects two for your text field...


Ries

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

Hi there,

seems I don't understand how FOUND variable in pl/pgsql function defined, when I use EXECUTE of PERFORM. There is no problem when I use plain SQL. Below is a test I did for 8.4beta2. This is simplified script and I can use plain SQL, but in my project I need EXECUTE.

CREATE TABLE db (a INT, b TEXT);
INSERTYTT INTO db VALUES(1,'one');

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION merge_db(key INT, data TEXT) RETURNS VOID AS
$$
BEGIN
EXECUTE 'UPDATE db SET b='||quote_literal(data)||' WHERE a='||key;
       RAISE NOTICE 'found:%',FOUND;
END;
$$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;


After successfull update I expected TRUE, as with plain INSERT (instead of EXECUTE), but FOUND is FALSE !

=# SELECT merge_db(1, 'two');
NOTICE:  found:f
merge_db ----------

(1 row)
=# select * from db;
a |  b ---+-----
1 | two
(1 row)




        Regards,
                Oleg
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