Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?

2011/10/20 Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>
>> I suppose you could argue that selecting a value and implicitly throwing
>> it away is confusing to novices, but on the other hand I've seen a whole
>> lot of novices confused by the need to write PERFORM instead of SELECT.
>> I think it wouldn't be an unreasonable thing to just interpret a SELECT
>> with no INTO clause as being a PERFORM (ie execute and discard results).
>> Then we'd not have to do anything magic for commands starting with WITH.
>>
>>                        regards, tom lane
>>
>
> it would be really a good idea to allow SELECT without INTO in plpgsql.

SELECT without INTO is useless in plpgsql - because you have to drop result.

regards

Pavel Stehule

> PERFORM just makes things much more complicated, without actually adding any
> really working "protection" from misusing SELECT without INTO.
> With best regards,
> -- Valentin Gogichashvili