Re: What's wrong with this function

Try:
create function foo(text) returns int4 as '
delcare
tcount int4:=0;
begin
for rec IN select title, dcount from songs where artist=$1 LOOP
tcount:= tcount+rec.dcount;
END LOOP;
return tcount;
end;
' language 'plpgsql';

call it by:

db> select foo('Najm Hashmi');

it will return how many songs of 'Najm Hashmi' in your database.

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Najm Hashmi wrote:

> Jie Liang wrote:
>
> > I just know you can use implict cursor inside the plpgsql
> > e.g
> > declare
>
> result text;
> tcount int4;
>
> >
> > rec record;
> > begin
> > FOR rec IN select_clause LOOP
> > statements
> > END LOOP;
> > end;
> >
>
> Thank you Jie for your help. I am bit confused about how it works. I want for
> each row , obtained by select statment, get certain values and then do some
> calculations and out put that resulst eg

> for rec IN select title, dcount from songs where artist='xyz'
> tcount:= tcount+rec.dcount;
> END LOOP;
> return tcount;
> would this work ?
> Thanks again for your help.
> Regards, Najm
>
>