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Subject: Re: SELECTing from a function where i don't want the results
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> On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:48 PM, Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Yes: it returns one row per record for deletion with a deleted row =
count, and is called for hundreds (sometimes thousands) of records.

Why not write a function that works the way you want?=