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Default Re: [BUGS] PERFORM bug with FOUND? - 11-22-2003 , 01:52 AM






Tom Lane <tgl (AT) sss (DOT) pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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david (AT) fetter (DOT) org (David Fetter) writes:
I've written a little hack, here included, which is supposed to find
whether a user is in a group. I'd intended to do a PERFORM instead of
SELECT INTO, but PERFORM appears to set FOUND to true no matter what.

What version are you using? It seems to work per spec in 7.4.

regression=# create function foo(name) returns bool as '
regression'# begin
regression'# perform * from pg_user where usename = $1;
regression'# return found;
regression'# end' language plpgsql;
CREATE FUNCTION
regression=# select foo('postgres');
foo
-----
t
(1 row)

regression=# select foo('not');
foo
-----
f
(1 row)

regression=#

regards, tom lane
Tom,

Thanks for staying on top of this. This was 7.4 on Linux i686,
compiling from source with just the defaults except port. Here's a
working version.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION in_group (text, text) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '
BEGIN
PERFORM u.usename
FROM
pg_user u
, pg_group g
WHERE
u.usename = $1
AND g.groname = $2
AND u.usesysid = ANY (g.grolist);

RETURN FOUND;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STRICT IMMUTABLE;

BTW, I'd like to lobby for an example in the docs of how to do a
PERFORM instead of a SELECT, 'cause that syntax wasn't right away
obvious.

Cheers,
D
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