Re: [GENERAL] PERFORM not working properly, please help..

2010-02-19 Thread wilczarz1
I suppose some workaround would be to introduce temporary cursor: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION A3() RETURNS VOID AS $BODY$ declare _tmp record; begin select * from A1() as dummy ( x double precision ) into _tmp; end; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; But I'm not sure if this is more effiecent than A3 r

Re: [GENERAL] PERFORM not working properly, please help..

2010-02-19 Thread wilczarz1
Hi Ray, thanks for reply. Your solution needs to be modified with alias to get executed properly: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION A3() RETURNS VOID AS $BODY$ begin select * from A1() as dummy ( x double precision ); return; end; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; but when used: select * from A3() it genera

Re: [GENERAL] PERFORM not working properly, please help..

2010-02-19 Thread wilczarz1
Hi Pavel, thanks for reply. Your solution: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION A3() RETURNS VOID AS $BODY$ begin return query select * from A1(); return; end; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; generates error "cannot use RETURN QUERY in a non-SETOF function" because A3 returns VOID. "Pavel Stehule" napisa

[GENERAL] PERFORM not working properly, please help..

2010-02-18 Thread wilczarz1
I have a function A1 that returns setof records, and I use it in two ways: 1) from function A2, where I need results from A1 2) from function A3, where I don't need these results, all I need is to execute logic from A1 Here ale very simple versions of my functions: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION A1()