Does Oracle have a syntax for this?
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 19:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Robert Treat wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:38, greg@turnstep.com wrote:
> > > > FOR myrec IN EXECUTE myinfo LOOP
> > > > biglist := myrec.info;
> > > > END LOOP;
> > >
> > > One other thing, I hate when I have to do things like the above, can we
> > > get a TODO like:
> > >
> > > allow 'EXECUTE var INTO record' in plpgsql
> >
> > So the TODO would be?
> >
> > Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE to return a single record outside a loop
>
> that's what I wrote, but not what I meant :-) I do like the sound of it
> though, but really what I meant to say was:
> EXECUTE var1 INTO var2
> but this assumes a number of things, namely that executing var1 will return
> only one field, and one row. I guess that would be:
> Allow PL/pgSQL EXECUTE to return a single variable outside a loop
>
> Robert Treat
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