Re: SELECTing into usertype, how to do it? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Mario Splivalo
Subject Re: SELECTing into usertype, how to do it?
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Msg-id 1145967950.8822.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: SELECTing into usertype, how to do it?  ("A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>)
Responses Re: SELECTing into usertype, how to do it?
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On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:21 +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am  25.04.2006, um 14:03:07 +0200 mailte Mario Splivalo folgendes:
> > 
> > And then, when I want to fill in the type_var, i do this:
> > 
> >     type_var.member_a := col_a FROM table_a WHERE col_c = 5;
> >     type_var.member_b := col_b FROM table_a WHERE col_c = 5;
> > 
> > Is there a way to fill in the type_var, but from just one statement?
> > Here I have two 'selects' on table_a, and that seems as bit expensive
> > when iterated a lot of times.
> > 
> > I guess I could do:
> >     SELECT col_a, col_b INTO type_var.member_a, type_var.member_b FROM
> > table_A WHERE col_c = 5;
> > 
> > but that is a bit hard to read :)
> > 
> > Are there more options on doing what I'd like to do?
> 
> select into type_var col_a, col_b from table_a ... ;
> 

Thnx... still, that SELECT INTO looks pretty anoying... it would be neat
to type just: type_var := col_a, col_b FROM ...

I guess the code would look much more readable...
Mario
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