Re: loop with circular updates

From: Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com>
To: Jessica M Salmon <jmsalmon(at)fs(dot)fed(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: loop with circular updates
Date: 2006-07-26 14:50:39
Message-ID: 44C7813F.8040803@secdat.com
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Jessica M Salmon wrote:

>Hi All.
>
>I'm writing a plpgsql function that creates a table and loops over the
>items in that table, using a FOR ... IN EXECUTE ... loop. The thing is, on
>each iteration I update the table over which I am looping. Sometimes, the
>result of this update makes it no longer necessary/desirable to process
>subsequent records in the loop.
>
>
Can you tell us more about the app? Sounds like an ERP allocation or
something like that.

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