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From: Richard Albright <ralbright@insiderscore.com>
To: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: plpgsql array looping
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:54:29 -0400
Message-ID: <1177509269.9556.2.camel@MSI1036> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <965E504A-7301-4531-B381-A1EEEB539344@pgedit.com>
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	<965E504A-7301-4531-B381-A1EEEB539344@pgedit.com>

yeah i noticed that this morning, it used to be a while loop, for some
reason (probably parser related) it keeps giving me an error on the exit
when statement in the loop.

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:38 -0400, John DeSoi wrote:
> One problem (unless you intend to only look at every other element)  
> is that you are incrementing idxptr explicitly in your loop. The FOR  
> loop does that for you. This is the reason your output shows only  
> even values.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Apr 24, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Richard Albright wrote:
> 
> > 	for idxptr in 1 .. array_upper(p_idxarray, 1)
> > 	loop
> > 		exit when p_idxarray[idxptr] >= p_idx;
> > 		idxptr := idxptr +1;
> > 		raise notice 'idx ptr: %', idxptr;
> > 	end loop;
> 
> 
> 
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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