cool, thanks
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Cédric Villemain <ced...@2ndquadrant.com>wrote:
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> Le mardi 2 octobre 2012 15:01:08, Willy-Bas Loos a écrit :
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> > Hi,
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> > (postgres 9.1)
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> > I was doing something like this in a plpgsql function, but i got a Syntax
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> > Error.
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> >
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> > t_var:=(insert into table1(field2) values ('x') returning field1);
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> >
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> > Is there no support for using RETURNING in insert, update, delete queries
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> > to fill a variable in plpgsql?
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> Use the following :
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> INSERT ... RETURNING expressions INTO [STRICT] target;
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> UPDATE ... RETURNING expressions INTO [STRICT] target;
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> DELETE ... RETURNING expressions INTO [STRICT] target;
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/plpgsql-statements.html
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> Else if you have multiple rows do something like:
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> FOR my_update IN UPDATE ... RETURNING * LOOP
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