X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4299852ADA for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:39:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74153-04 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:39:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from larry.aptalaska.net (larry.aptalaska.net [64.186.96.3]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE1552AE6 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:39:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.98.9] (rdbck-static-287.palmer.mtaonline.net [64.4.232.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by larry.aptalaska.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6TNqmQt022798 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:52:49 -0800 Message-ID: <42EABE20.6040805@aptalaska.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:39:12 -0800 From: Matthew Schumacher User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: How to loop though an array plpgsql? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Bayes: Learn: no X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 64.186.96.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.103 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, UPPERCASE_25_50 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200507/247 X-Sequence-Number: 22225 I need to loop though an input array, but can't figure out how to do it, the docs aren't really clear on this. Something like this: CREATE FUNCTION update (_id INTEGER[]) RETURNS VOID AS $$ BEGIN FOR i IN SELECT _id LOOP INSERT INTO table VALUES (_id[i]); END LOOP; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; Anyone know the correct loop syntax? schu