Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20259FA2CA for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:02:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09186-02 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:02:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B179FA098 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:02:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kAOG215A004199; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:02:01 -0500 (EST) To: aklaver@comcast.net cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Mulham freshcode , "A. Kretschmer" Subject: Re: select into In-reply-to: <200611240645.33431.aklaver@comcast.net> References: <20061124042134.55885.qmail@web90512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <28318.1164343519@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200611240645.33431.aklaver@comcast.net> Comments: In-reply-to Adrian Klaver message dated "Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:45:33 -0800" Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4198.1164384120@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/249 X-Sequence-Number: 26901 Adrian Klaver 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-DYN > " 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