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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: aklaver@comcast.net
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Mulham freshcode <mulhamcode@yahoo.com>
Cc: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
Subject: Re: select into
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:02:00 -0500
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Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net> writes:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 08:45 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This should work --- in PG 8.1 or later.

> The documentation for pl/pgsql  in 8.1 and higher says different. 

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-...
> " SELECT INTO is not currently supported within EXECUTE."

That says you can't do
	EXECUTE 'select ... into foo ...';
which is not the same thing as
	EXECUTE 'select ...' into foo;

			regards, tom lane

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