Re: I must be blind... - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > I don't think you can use PERFORM like that. Try:
>
> Actually I believe he can; after looking at the manual I realized that
> the problem is that PERFORM is syntactically a substitute for SELECT.
> In other words he needed to write
>
>     PERFORM 1 FROM orders ...
> not
>     PERFORM SELECT 1 FROM orders ...

Thanks Tom,

I didn't get that from the manual at all. I think I should go reread it.


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