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I would expect most drivers to support (anonymous) stored procedures so you can batch/pipeline multiple queries into one statement to be executed by the databas

• mxey 1y ago
  You don’t even need driver support, you can use https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-do.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-do.html
  • ako 1y ago
    Yes, exactly, sql do is the Postgres way of executing an anonymous block.
• hombre_fatal 1y ago
  People don't do that because when you're writing insert/update queries, you tend to want to write logic based on the value of intermediate results, and also you can't return tabular data from a DO block (they operate as a function returning void). You also can't use parameterized values like $1, $2. It seems more niche than you're suggesting. Though I wish people would write app layer pseudocode to demonstrate what they are referring to.
  • ako 1y ago
    In a plsql block you can use parameters, ref cursors or arrays to return tabular data and do if/then/else/while logic.