Re: select within a fucntion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: select within a fucntion
Date
Msg-id 200101191947.OAA07997@jupiter.jw.home
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In response to select within a fucntion  (Sinuhé Arroyo <sinuheag@isoco.com>)
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Sinuhi Arroyo wrote:
> I`mtrying to make a select which envolves two tables with in a
> function....if the query is written this way: (this is just an example,
> not my query)
>
> a := (select count(*) from xx);
>
> it works fine, but if I type the query like this
>
> select count(*) from xx;
>
> it throws a message that says unexpected query in exec_stmt_execsql.
> If anyone knows how to fix it, it woul be great.
> Thanx
   What  should  this "select count(*) from xx;" be good for, if   you don't want to use  the  result?  You  can  of
course do   "perform  select  ..."   because  that'd use another PL/pgSQL   executor construct that doesn't  complain
about getting  an   unused return value, but I still wonder why you want to waste   CPU and IO (bought an oversized
system?).


Jan

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