I am writing functions and I find it curious that CREATE FUNCTION does not do syntax checking.
Example: test=# CREATE FUNCTION foo(INTEGER) RETURNS BOOLEAN test-# AS 'this is total crap' LANGUAGE plpgsql; CREATE FUNCTION test=# select foo(1); ERROR: syntax error at or near "this" CONTEXT: compile of PL/pgSQL function "foo" near line 1 The statement itself is valid, but the function causes runtime syntax errors. Seems like one could run the interpreter with bogus, but syntactically correct arguments to the function, creating the instruction tree. Then run through the tree and try to create execution plans for all the statements. The cost of this would be well worth *my* time ;-) Is there a technical reason this doesn't happen? TIA, \<. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
