From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Kevin B. <db@ke5in.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: assign the row count of a query to a variable
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:15:48 -0700
Message-ID: <20050114211548.GA42739@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Kevin B. wrote:
> I'm trying to assign the row count of a query to a variable in a function
> but I'm not having any luck.
Please be more specific than "not having any luck." What are you
expecting to happen and what actually does happen?
> Could someone tell me the syntax? I've been looking in the docs and
> googling for a long time but just can't find the answer.
See the "Basic Statements" and "Expressions" sections of the PL/pgSQL
documentation. Either of the following should work:
var := count(*) FROM T;
SELECT INTO var count(*) FROM T;
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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