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From Melvin Davidson
Subject Re: SELECT INTO and ON COMMIT
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In response to Re: SELECT INTO and ON COMMIT  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: SELECT INTO and ON COMMIT  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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So perhaps replace the SQL SELECT INTO with SQL ADD INTO ?

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:05:43PM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>> Will `SELECT INTO` be deprecated? It is very convenient when writing pgplsql
>> functions, to select into a record.

> The pl/psql `SELECT INTO` is not related to the SQL SELECT INTO command
> --- yeah, confusing, so no, the pl/psql ability is not deprecated.

Part of the argument for deprecating the SQL-level SELECT INTO is
exactly that it's confusingly spelled the same as plpgsql's SELECT INTO,
but it means something totally different.

                        regards, tom lane


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