Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:34:17 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com>
Cc: mario.splivalo@mobart.hr, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: EXECUTE with SELECT INTO variable, or alternatives
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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-DYN

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Michael Fuhr