Re: SELECT INTO returns incorrect values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SELECT INTO returns incorrect values
Date
Msg-id 7475.1220066192@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to SELECT INTO returns incorrect values  (Bill Todd <pg@dbginc.com>)
List pgsql-general
Bill Todd <pg@dbginc.com> writes:
> The following SELECT INTO returns incorrect values in the variables
> CATEGORY_NAME and PARENT_ID. If I copy the SELECT statement to pgAdmin,
> delete the INTO clause and run the query it returns the correct values.

You didn't show us the whole function definition, so this is just
speculation, but I wonder whether any of the function's variable or
parameter names match any of the table column names used in the query.
For instance if you had a function parameter named CATEGORY or
CATEGORY_ID, you'd get surprising results because the value of that
parameter would get substituted for what you're thinking is a column
reference.

            regards, tom lane

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