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From: Chamath Sajeewa <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PGSQL returning into in insert statement
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:26:26 +0530
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Btw oracle support this in plain sql too.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, 11:42 Chamath Sajeewa, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Understood. Thank you!
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020, 08:35 Tom Lane, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Chamath Sajeewa <[email protected]> writes:
>> > I want to use "returning into" in insert statement. I tried below,
>>
>> > insert into test_table(key,value) values('key1',5) returning value into
>> > returnvalue;
>>
>> > and below error occurred- syntax error at or near "into".
>>
>> That is perfectly legit syntax within a plpgsql function, but it
>> would produce the mentioned syntax error if you tried to use it
>> directly at the SQL level.  So I conclude that you're fuzzy about
>> the difference between SQL and plpgsql.  You can use plpgsql
>> statements within plpgsql-language function definitions, and
>> within DO blocks.  But not as plain SQL.  (Plain SQL has no concept
>> of variables either, so "into returnvalue" makes no sense there
>> anyway.)
>>
>>                         regards, tom lane
>>
>


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