On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:35:38AM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
> We're doing it in multiple transactions within the function. Could we do
> something like this?:
>
> ....
> BEGIN
> FOR rec IN SELECT field01, field02, ... FROM otherTable LOOP
> RETURN NEXT rec;
> UPDATE dataTable SET field01=rec.field01, field02=rec.field02,
> rec.field03=field03, ...
> WHERE id = rec.id;
> COMMIT;
> ....
>
>
> If we can do it this way, are there any other gotcha's we should be
> aware of?
AFAIK you should be able to do this, yes (although I have no experience with
PL/SQL); I'm not sure how much it buys you, but you might want to test it, at
least.
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