Thanks Michael!  Guess I should have drunk more coffee before replying.
I must have miss that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:22 AM
To: Douglas McNaught
Cc: Foster, Stephen; pgsql-general@postgresql.org;
pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Looking for information on PostgreSQL
Stored Procedures

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:38:47AM -0500, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> "Foster, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > WHILE (--Lost on variable name for end of query; EmptyQueryResponse
<>
> > 0? --)
> >     BEGIN
> >             IF LastName = fname THEN
> >                     DELETE FROM MailingList WHERE id = id;
> >             END IF;
> >             LastName := fname;
> >             FETCH NEXT FROM NewListCursor INTO fname, id;
> >     END;
> > CLOSE NewListCursor;
> > $BODY$
> > LANGUAGE 'sql' VOLATILE;
> 
> You can't do any looping or other control structures in an SQL
> function.  Use PL/pgSQL instead.

And as I mentioned in my previous post, you can loop through query
results without messing around with an explicit cursor.

CREATE FUNCTION testfunc() RETURNS void AS $$
DECLARE
    row  record;
BEGIN
    FOR row IN SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY whatever LOOP
        -- do stuff that refers to row.column_name
    END LOOP;

    RETURN;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

-- 
Michael Fuhr

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