From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Thomas F. O'Connell <tfo@sitening.com>
Cc: mario.splivalo@mobart.hr
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: EXECUTE with SELECT INTO variable, or alternatives
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:34:17 -0600
Message-ID: <20050930233417.GA44295@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
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<1045972B-4D8E-4801-A958-76A1DB6FAD0B@sitening.com>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:59:06PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> Per the docs:
>
> "The results from SELECT commands are discarded by EXECUTE, and
> SELECT INTO is not currently supported within EXECUTE. So there is no
> way to extract a result from a dynamically-created SELECT using the
> plain EXECUTE command. There are two other ways to do it, however:
> one is to use the FOR-IN-EXECUTE loop form described in Section
> 35.7.4, and the other is to use a cursor with OPEN-FOR-EXECUTE, as
> described in Section 35.8.2."
8.1 will have EXECUTE ... INTO.
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-D...
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Michael Fuhr
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