| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Different results in a loop with RECORD vs ROWTYPE... |
| Date: | 2003-05-23 18:12:40 |
| Message-ID: | 200305231112.41146.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Tom,
> > If you're still interested, I will consult my PL/SQL bible this afternoon
to
> > see what Oracle 8i does in this case.
>
> Since plpgsql is generally supposed to be a slavish imitation of Oracle,
> it would be good to know what they do...
Unfortunately, PL/PQL Programming, 2nd Edition, does not make it clear what
happens if you select the wrong columns for a given %ROWTYPE. Like PL/pgSQL,
PL/SQL Programming encourages the use of RECORDs rather than %ROWTYPE.
I'll post to the SQL list to see if any of the Oracle hackers there knows.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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