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From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
To: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: SELECTing from a function where i don't want the results
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:52:34 +0200
Message-ID: <20200708125234.GA21649@depesz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOC+FBXnaxi1yiEv=mL2J1tbnsLfqoneNOnikiQFobdEv=DaWw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOC+FBXnaxi1yiEv=mL2J1tbnsLfqoneNOnikiQFobdEv=DaWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:34:31PM -0700, Wells Oliver wrote:
> Vanilla SQL script calls a plpgsql function to delete some number of rows
> from three tables:
> 
> SELECT mydelete(r) FROM sometable;

select count( mydelete(r) ) from sometable;

this will return just one row regardless of how many rows are in
sometable.

Best regards,

depesz






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