From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Reinoud van Leeuwen <reinoud@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql strangeness with select into <variable>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030718091807.T95696-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307180914.43379.josh@agliodbs.com>
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > I'm debugging a trigger in plpgsql and for some reason or the "select
> > into <var>" does not seem to work. Here is an unaltered snippet of my
> > trigger code:
> >
> > raise notice ''this id : %'',NEW.id;
> >
> > select into i_hierarchy_id
> > hierarchy_id
> > from link_def LD,
> > link L,
> > object_link OL
> > where OL.id = NEW.id
> > and L.id = OL.link_id
> > and LD.id = L.link_def_id;
> >
> > raise notice ''i_hierarchy_id: %'',i_hierarchy_id;
> >
> >
> > in the log this results in:
> >
> > NOTICE: this id : 5265
> > NOTICE: i_hierarchy_id: <NULL>
> >
> > but when I perform the query on the command line I do get a result:
> >
> > select hierarchy_id
> > from link_def LD,
> > link L,
> > object_link OL
> > where OL.id = 5264
> > and L.id = OL.link_id
> > and LD.id = L.link_def_id;
> >
> > hierarchy_id
> > --------------
> > 1
> > (1 row)
> >
> > i_hierarchy_id is declared as integer and is not used before this code nor
> > as a column name anywhere.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong? I use Postgresql 7.3.3 on
> > FreeBSD 4.5.
>
> Without seeing your full trigger code, I can't tell for sure. However, I
> would guess that your "SELECT INTO" statement is querying data that has not
> yet been created; it's an FK record waiting on a deferred trigger, or you're
> using a BEFORE trigger and querying the record which has not yet been
> committed.
Or perhaps you have a variable named hierarchy_id in the function which is
getting used rather than the column of the table in question. Seeing the
entire function might help.
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