From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
---|---|
To: | |
Cc: | Roberto Rezende de Assis <rezende_assis(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, Postgesql list <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Why this does not work ?? |
Date: | 2004-07-04 03:07:11 |
Message-ID: | 26744.1088910431@sss.pgh.pa.us |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-novice |
I wrote:
> The loop variable of a for/select loop has to be a record or rowtype
> variable. So you should do something like
> declare
> r record;
> begin
> for r in select * from original order by num asc loop
> insert into copia(num) values(r.num);
>> WARNING: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of copiar near line 4
>> ERROR: missing .. at end of SQL expression
> I agree that this error message is not very helpful :-(
FYI, I have just committed some fixes that will hopefully provide more
helpful error messages for erroneous FOR-loops. Your example will
draw
ERROR: loop variable of loop over rows must be a record or row variable
in PG 7.5.
regards, tom lane
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Markus Bertheau | 2004-07-04 10:10:51 | Re: Why this does not work ?? |
Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2004-07-03 21:56:45 | Re: Why this does not work ?? |