Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?
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Msg-id 25223.1319130933@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?  (Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog@gmail.com> writes:
> And, ernestly, if it were useless to have SELECT without INTO in plpgsql,
> there also would be no PERFORM command in plpgsql...

Precisely.  Pavel's claim is nonsense.  The only real question is how
useful is it to call it PERFORM instead of SELECT.

            regards, tom lane

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