get value after updating table

roger-
you need an exception block as in...
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_a_005("login" "varchar", pwd "varchar")
RETURNS boolean AS
$BODY$

BEGIN
UPDATE...
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
RETURN FALSE
WHEN PROGRAM_ERROR
RETURN FALSE
WHEN OTHERS
RETURN FALSE
RETURN TRUE
END;
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alain Roger
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] get value after updating table

Hi,

I wrote a function which should update a table field.
However, i would like somehow to control that update was done.
for that i was thinking to return a boolean : true is update was done, false if an error happened.

however, i can i do that ? I mean how can i know if UPDATE has been correctly executed ?

here is my function :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_a_005("login" "varchar", pwd "varchar")
RETURNS boolean AS
$BODY$

DECLARE

BEGIN
UPDATE accounts
SET account_pwd = $2
WHERE account_login = $1;
RETURN;

END;

--
Alain
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Windows XP SP2
PostgreSQL 8.1.4
Apache 2.0.58
PHP 5

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Alain Roger wrote:

Hi,

I wrote a function which should update a table field.
However, i would like somehow to control that update was done.
for that i was thinking to return a boolean : true is update was done, false
if an error happened.

I beleive in recent versions you can do things like:

UPDATE accounts
SET account_pwd = $2
WHERE account_login = $1

RETURNING account_id;

If it updated it would return the ID of the row updated...

Have a nice day,
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