Kevin Grittner wrote:
Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
This would become much simpler if you could just execute plpgsql
code instead of having to define a function around it.
I have often wished for that feature.

You're not Robinson Crusoe.

It could be done in several ways.

One fairly simple way would use a new SQL verb (say, DO) like this:

DO $$ something in plfoo$ $ LANGUAGE plfoo;

We could even default the langauge to plpgsql, for which you would then just need:

DO $$ something in plpgsql $$;

The something would in effect be treated as a throwaway function taking no parameters and returning void.

But to make it really nice you'd have to move away from pl programs as strings. That would be a lot more work, and you really wouldn't want to make it work with more than one PL for the sake of everyone's sanity.

cheers

andrew

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