Re: Error on dynamic code.

On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:46 AM, Mark J Camilleri wrote:

>
>
> The funny thing is that the documentation I read about SELECT INTO
> and RECORD types give the following example, amongst others:
See the section below that on EXECUTE:

> 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.

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