Hi,

I was wondering whether anybody would be able to advise me on how (if it is 
possible) to port some functionality from Oracle?

This is just an example - in Oracle, I am able to do the following 

--
-- Create a data type which replicates the data structure of a single user in 
my application.
-- I know that this can be done using PostgreSQL.
--

CREATE TYPE TY_APP_USER AS OBJECT
(
  aur_id                 INT
, aur_username           VARCHAR2(30  CHAR)
, aur_is_account_enabled VARCHAR2(1   CHAR)
, aur_created_date       DATE
, aur_updated_date       TIMESTAMP
)
/

--
-- Create a data type which can store many instances of a single 'TY_APP_USER' 
-- [essentially this is a table valued data type]. An instance of this data 
type can be
-- created and populated by the client application [a java based one in my 
case].
--
-- I can't find any reference to something 
-- similar to this using postgreSQL.
--

CREATE TYPE TTY_APP_USER AS TABLE OF TY_APP_USER
/

--
-- Next define a stored procedure which can accept an instance of a 
TTY_APP_USER data
-- type, and treat that instance as a table, for example ...
--

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE prAddUsers
(
  p_in_users IN tty_app_user
)
IS
BEGIN

  INSERT
    INTO
         users
       (
         aur_id
       , aur_username
       , aur_is_account_enabled
       , aur_created_by
       , aur_created_date
       )
  SELECT
         aur_id
       , aur_username
       , aur_is_account_enabled
       , aur_created_by
       , aur_created_date
    FROM
         TABLE
         (
           CAST
           (
             p_in_users AS tty_app_user
           )
         );

END prUpdateUsers;

My motivation for doing this is to reduce network round trips, instead of 
having 1 call per record to be sent to the db, I can have 1 call passing all 
values which I wish to store in the database.

Sending multiple records to the database as a result of a single form 
submission is a requirement that arises frequently [the example is just 
intended to demonstrate the principle!], and I would be grateful if anybody 
could help me to arrive at an optimal solution.

Cheers,

Andrew.





                                          
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