Stored Procedures in Omnis Library

Yes, I was also going to suggest this, $userinfo can store a large
amount of text.
For reports we store a default template in $userinfo…

regards
Phil Potter
Based in Chester in the UK.

On 03/11/2017 16:24, Scotte Meredith wrote:
> You could have a class in the library and put it in the $userinfo for that class. You can put anything into $userinfo.
>
> Then pull it out in a string and execute it.
>
>
>> On Nov 3, 2017, at 8:33 AM, Alan Grinberg <omnis@alangrinberg.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Using Postgres and Studio 6.
>>
>> We have some complex stored procedures that we want to set up in a new PG database.
>> No problem doing this with PG Admin (and using Razor, too).
>>
>> We want to put this code in our Omnis library so the user can trigger it when a new database is created.
>>
>> The SQL is a large block of static text. (50+ lines)
>>
>> What is the preferred way of storing this in the library?
>>
>> 3 ideas so far:
>> 1. STA: (too cumbersome, SQL is already written)
>> 2. Copy text to an object method as comments, then extract the leading semi-colons
>> 3. Store the SQL in a record in the database by copy/paste (but requires our intervention)
>> 4. Read from a text file (not secure)
>>
>> Any ideas out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>>
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