Re: Out of memory error

Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:32:47 -0800, Joshua D. Drake
> <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>>Any advice on how to avoid it?
>>
>>Use a cursor.
>>
>
> Same thing using a cursor:

Well your first email didn't explain that you were doing the below :)
The cursor will help you with large data pulls from a select.
However you aren't doing a simple select. You are doing an insert into
with a select as your data source.

>
> declare
> rdata record;
> begin
> truncate table usuarios2;
> for rdata in
> select distinct on (data) data
> from usuarios
> loop
> insert into usuarios2
> (
> data,
> usuario,
> pontos,
> wus
> )
> select
> data,
> usuario,
> sum(pontos),
> sum(wus)
> from usuarios
> where data = rdata.data
> group by data, usuario
> ;
> end loop;
> return;
> end;

Is this the entire function?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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