Re: EXECUTE with SELECT INTO variable, or alternatives

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."

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/plpgsql-
statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

So you've already hit upon one of your options.

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On Sep 29, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Mario Splivalo wrote:

> I can assign a value to a variable in several ways:
>
> myVar := (SELECT col FROM table WHERE somecondition...)
> myVar := col FROM table WHERE somecondtition...
> SELECT col INTO myVar FROM table WHERE somecondition
>
> How do I do any of the above using EXECUTE? I need to be able to
> assign
> the value to a variable, a value returned by a querry on a temporary
> table.
>
> So far I have found workaround like this:
>
> myRec record;
>
> FOR rec IN EXECUTE ''SELECT col FROM table WHERE somecondition''
> LOOP
> myVar := rec
> END LOOP
>
> Obviously, the above SELECT query returns only one row. Still, if is
> realy inconvinient to have FOR...LOOP...END LOOP construct for
> assigning
> the value to a variable 'read' from the temporary table.
>
> Mario