From: Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SELECTing from a function where i don't want the results
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 00:38:18 +0200
Message-ID: <5cbe6f6d-5db5-9020-a58b-48ecf91efd61@jakobs.com> (raw)
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You could combine the result with a NULL value, as any operations with
NULL result in NULL.
SELECT mydelete(r) + NULL FROM sometable;
Am 08.07.20 um 00:34 schrieb Wells Oliver:
> Vanilla SQL script calls a plpgsql function to delete some number of
> rows from three tables:
>
> SELECT mydelete(r) FROM sometable;
>
> Where sometable contains maybe 100+ records. This causes the results
> from the function (integer of number of rows removed) to be displayed
> in the output, like you'd kinda expect with a SELECT call, except I
> don't want to see it all, I just want the function quietly executed
> and rows removed.
>
> Can I accomplish this?
>
> --
> Wells Oliver
> wells.oliver@gmail.com <mailto:wellsoliver@gmail.com>
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