Trying to move away from Firebird

On 02/12/2016 02:11 PM, ioan ghip wrote:

I was able to create all the domains, tables, views, etc, but I have
trouble creating stored procedures and triggers. Also, a question, does
Postgres support events, for example in Firebird I could do something
like this and then receive the event in the GUI:

if ((NEW.MUSED_M_>=NEW.MLIMIT_M_) and (NEW.MLIMIT_M_>0) and
(NEW.ISACTIVE=1) and (NEW.FAXTOFAXFLAG=1)) then
begin
POST_EVENT 'deactivate_f2f';
end

LISTEN/NOTIFY?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-listen.html

What exactly does POST_EVENT do?

Please help me translate the examples bellow so I can understand the
differences:

CREATE GENERATOR GENADMINID START WITH 0 INCREMENT BY 1;
SET GENERATOR GENADMINID TO 108;

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-createsequence.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/functions-sequence.html

CREATE TRIGGER B_UPDATE_COMPANY FOR COMPANY
ACTIVE AFTER UPDATE POSITION 10
AS
begin
if (old.AGENTID != new.AGENTID) then
begin
update USERS set USERS.AGENTID=new.AGENTID where USERS.COMPANYID =
new.COMPANYID;
end
end

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-createtrigger.html

Difference in Postgres, you specify a separate function you want the
trigger to execute.

CREATE PROCEDURE GET_ATA_STATUS (
MAC VARCHAR(128),
NOW_D_ INTEGER)
RETURNS (
ATA_STATUS INTEGER)
AS
begin
SELECT IIF((a.TIMESTAMP_D_ + a.EXPIRE) > :NOW_D_, 1, 0) FROM ATA a
WHERE a.ATAMAC = :MAC into :ATA_STATUS;
SUSPEND;
end

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-createfunction.html

In Postgres you have a choice of languages. Built in as of recent
versions are:
C
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/xfunc-c.html

SQL
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/sql-createfunction.html

and the one you probably want to start with

plpgsql
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/plpgsql.html

Thanks a lot.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

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Thanks for the links Adrian. I was able to convert a bunch of triggers
after reading the documentation.

Yes, it looks like POST_EVENT is the smaller brother of NOTIFY.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-notify.html