Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> wrote:
>> What would be the syntax for putting a single row from a cursor into a
>> variable? I have tried:
>>
>> FETCH INTO left left_cursor;
> according to the docs,
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html#PLPGSQL-CURSOR-USING
Subsequent discussion showed that the problem was Matthew hadn't found
that page. I guess that at least the DECLARE CURSOR reference page
ought to have something like "if you are trying to use cursors in
plpgsql, see <link>". Matthew, where *were* you looking exactly?
regards, tom lane
