Re: Discarding the resulting rows

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> "Murali M. Krishna" <murali1729(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I looked at the documentation and I saw something about using the
>> keyword PERFORM rather than SELECT.
>
> I don't remember ever seeing anything like that.  Do you have a URL?
>

i guess he is refering to the plpgsql's PERFORM statement, which of
course he can't use outside a plpgsql function...
mmm... well, IIRC, in 9.0 he will be able to do DO $$ PERFORM * FROM
tabla; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

but i think DO is not an EXPLAINing statement

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