Re: TEMPORARY TABLE in a PL/pgSQL function - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:05 -0200, Luiz K. Matsumura wrote:
> Hi, I have a similar case
> but instead of the statement
> PERFORM * FROM temp_table;  -- without this line no problems
> I have a SELECT INTO inside the plpgsql function
> SELECT * INTO rec FROM temp_table;
> That return the same error as Tjibbe got.
> I try to use something like
> EXEC 'SELECT * INTO rec FROM temp_table';
> But I now postgres (8.1.1) returns a error
>
> EXEC of SELECT ... INTO is not implemented yet.

You have the syntax wrong.  It is:

   EXECUTE command-string [ INTO target ];

In your case, that is:

   EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM temp_table' INTO rec;

so that the INTO phrase is outside the string.

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