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B. Shaik, D. K. ChemuduruProcedural Programming with PostgreSQL PL/pgSQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9840-4_12

12. Building Functions and Procedures

Baji Shaik1   and Dinesh Kumar Chemuduru2
(1)
Texas, TX, USA
(2)
Andhra Pradesh, India
 

In the previous chapter, we talked about Dynamic SQL and how to create and use them in PL/pgSQL with real time use cases. In this chapter, we will discuss functions and procedures in PostgreSQL and how to build them using the PL/pgSQL programming language. We will cover the different types of available function categories and differences between them using some examples. It will help to choose the function category while ...

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