Re: TODO item for plpgsql Was Re: obtuse plpgsql function needs

I don't seem to have any plsql specfic documentation, and the rest of my
oracle documentation isn't specfific enough. Anyone else?

Robert Treat

On Thursday 31 July 2003 00:12, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Does Oracle have a syntax for this?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 19:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Robert Treat wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:38, greg(at)turnstep(dot)com wrote:
> > > > > FOR myrec IN EXECUTE myinfo LOOP
> > > > > biglist := myrec.info;
> > > > > END LOOP;
> > > >
> > > > One other thing, I hate when I have to do things like the above, can
> > > > we get a TODO like:
> > > >
> > > > allow 'EXECUTE var INTO record' in plpgsql
> > >
> > > So the TODO would be?
> > >
> > > Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE to return a single record outside a loop
> >
> > that's what I wrote, but not what I meant :-) I do like the sound of it
> > though, but really what I meant to say was:
> > EXECUTE var1 INTO var2
> > but this assumes a number of things, namely that executing var1 will
> > return only one field, and one row. I guess that would be:
> > Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE to return a single variable outside a loop
> >
> > Robert Treat
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