Re: [GENERAL] Using results from RETURNING

2009-06-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Shak wrote: > Something like: > > SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (DELETE FROM a RETURNING *) ; > > sounds reasonable but results in a syntax error. I am able to return > single results into a variable or record, but not more than one result. Subqueries using DELETE ... RETURNING or UPDATE ... RETURNING

[GENERAL] Using results from RETURNING

2009-06-05 Thread Shak
Hi all, When RETURNING from a DELETE statement (or similar), how do you access the results being returned? Something like: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (DELETE FROM a RETURNING *) ; sounds reasonable but results in a syntax error. I am able to return single results into a variable or record, but no