Re: SELECTing from a function where i don't want the results

Yeah. I just kinda want a silent SELECT since the function I'm calling just
deletes, and I don't care about the output.

I'm guessing this is just something I need to get over.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:07 PM David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> You could combine the result with a NULL value, as any operations with
>> NULL result in NULL.
>>
>> SELECT mydelete(r) + NULL FROM sometable;
>>
> So now you have 100 rows containing null (assuming that indeed function
> result + unknown means something and you don’t just get an error) which is
> no better than what is the probably 100 rows of void output the OP is
> complaining about.
>
> David J.
>
>

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