| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | <depstein(at)alliedtesting(dot)com>,<pgagarinov(at)alliedtesting(dot)com>, <vshahov(at)alliedtesting(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL? |
| Date: | 2011-10-19 21:21:54 |
| Message-ID: | 4E9EF922020000250004225E@gw.wicourts.gov |
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think it wouldn't be an unreasonable thing to just interpret a
> SELECT with no INTO clause as being a PERFORM (ie execute and
> discard results).
FWIW, that would probably confuse people coming from MS SQL Server
or Sybase ASE, since doing that in Transact-SQL would return a
result set. Any stored procedure can produce an arbitrarily
intermixed stream of result sets, information lines, and error
messages.
-Kevin
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