Re: set-returning function in pg 7.4.6

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:50:38PM +0100, Raphael Bauduin wrote:

> for r in EXECUTE ''select customer_id from customers'' loop

If the query is static (i.e., not generated) and you're not working
with a temporary table, then you can omit EXECUTE:

FOR r IN SELECT customer_id FROM customers LOOP

The function might benefit from using a cached plan in this case.

> select GetRows();
>
> I get this error:
>
> ERROR: set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set
> CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "getrows" line 5 at return next

It should be:

SELECT * FROM GetRows();

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Michael Fuhr
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