PL/pgSQL

PL/pgSQL (Procedural Language/PostgreSQL Structured Query Language) is a procedural language supported by the PostgreSQL RDBMS. It closely resembles Oracle's PL/SQL language. PL/pgSQL, as a fully featured programming language, allows much more procedural control than SQL, including the ability to use loops and other control structures. Functions created in the PL/pgSQL language can be called from an SQL statement, or as the action that a trigger ... more

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