Tool to ease development of plpgsql

On Friday 16 January 2004 22:52, bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com wrote:

What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.

My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.

I personally use kate (on KDE) or vi, but any syntax-hightlighting editor can
help. I don't use anything fancy, just make sure the highlighting picks up
quoting / comments.
Edit the file with your function and use \i from psql to test it - that'll
give you line numbers for errors too.
ALWAYS make sure your variables/parameters have names that are different from
columns in queries.

Having done a _lot_ of plpgsql in the last few months, what irritates from my
end is:
1. Can't EXPLAIN inside a function
2. Error reporting not always useful
3. To work around the EXPLAIN problem I copy/paste SQL from my function, at
which time I have to unfix the quoting, then paste it back and refix the
quoting...

Anyway - there is the possiblilty that something a bit like shell/perl HERE
documents might exist in 7.5 which'll make the quoting problem go away.

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

Would a tool like www.presicient.com/teraforge be of value ?
I'm thinking of making a Pg port....if interested, please
let me know, and let me know what kind of features
you'd like to see...

--
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
www.presicient.com

"Richard Huxton" <dev@archonet.com> wrote in message
news:200401181512.22916.dev@archonet.com...

On Friday 16 January 2004 22:52, bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com

wrote:

What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.

My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.

I personally use kate (on KDE) or vi, but any syntax-hightlighting editor

can

help. I don't use anything fancy, just make sure the highlighting picks up
quoting / comments.
Edit the file with your function and use \i from psql to test it - that'll
give you line numbers for errors too.
ALWAYS make sure your variables/parameters have names that are different

from

columns in queries.

Having done a _lot_ of plpgsql in the last few months, what irritates from

my

end is:
1. Can't EXPLAIN inside a function
2. Error reporting not always useful
3. To work around the EXPLAIN problem I copy/paste SQL from my function,

at

which time I have to unfix the quoting, then paste it back and refix the
quoting...

Anyway - there is the possiblilty that something a bit like shell/perl

HERE

Richard Huxton wrote:

On Friday 16 January 2004 22:52, bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com wrote:

What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.
My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.

3. To work around the EXPLAIN problem I copy/paste SQL from my function, at
which time I have to unfix the quoting, then paste it back and refix the
quoting...

<plug>

I use EMS PostgreSQL Manager to edit PL/PGSQL functions. It automagically
escapes the quotes for you as you write functions, so you can just write:

SELECT 'sometexthere'::text;

instead of having to do:

SELECT ''sometexthere''::text;

It's a major time saver when developing. You gotta pay money for PG
Manager,
but it's worth it and has Windows and Linux versions.

http://www.ems-hitech.com/pgmanager/download.phtml

</plug>

Dante

Hello

try: http://www.ems-hitech.com/pgmanager. It has plpgsql debugger.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com wrote:

On Sunday 18 January 2004 16:02, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:

Richard Huxton wrote:

On Friday 16 January 2004 22:52, bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com wrote:

What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.
My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.

3. To work around the EXPLAIN problem I copy/paste SQL from my function,
at which time I have to unfix the quoting, then paste it back and refix
the quoting...

<plug>

I use EMS PostgreSQL Manager to edit PL/PGSQL functions. It automagically
escapes the quotes for you as you write functions, so you can just write:

SELECT 'sometexthere'::text;

instead of having to do:

SELECT ''sometexthere''::text;

It's a major time saver when developing. You gotta pay money for PG
Manager,
but it's worth it and has Windows and Linux versions.

http://www.ems-hitech.com/pgmanager/download.phtml

</plug>

FWIW I believe both phpPgAdmin and PgAdmin do this.

Robert Treat
--
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

PG Manager is a great tool. EMS is very responsive when it comes to bugs
or useability issues.

Rick

Pavel Stehule wrote:

Hello

try: http://www.ems-hitech.com/pgmanager. It has plpgsql debugger.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 bill.postgresql-users@mcmilleon.com wrote:

What's the best way to ease development of plpgsql.

My largest issues with plpgsql pertain to the quoting of course.

Bill McMilleon

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