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From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: Cursors in plpgsql
To: "Preeti Kamble" <preeti.kamble@wipro.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Preeti,

> Is there a command in plpgsql similar to  %NOTFOUND of oracle?

Cursors are not currently supported for PL/pgSQL.  There are plans to
include them for and upcoming version of Postgres.  But dont' wait your
application on it.

> i want to write a load script which takes each row from the temporary
> table, do some processing and insert into actual tables. Any idea how
> i
> can accomplish this???

Yes.  Please see my post from last week called: "Re: [SQL] Calling plSQL
functions".

-Josh Berkus

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