Re: SELECTing into usertype, how to do it?

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:21 +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am 25.04.2006, um 14:03:07 +0200 mailte Mario Splivalo folgendes:
> >
> > And then, when I want to fill in the type_var, i do this:
> >
> > type_var.member_a := col_a FROM table_a WHERE col_c = 5;
> > type_var.member_b := col_b FROM table_a WHERE col_c = 5;
> >
> > Is there a way to fill in the type_var, but from just one statement?
> > Here I have two 'selects' on table_a, and that seems as bit expensive
> > when iterated a lot of times.
> >
> > I guess I could do:
> > SELECT col_a, col_b INTO type_var.member_a, type_var.member_b FROM
> > table_A WHERE col_c = 5;
> >
> > but that is a bit hard to read :)
> >
> > Are there more options on doing what I'd like to do?
>
> select into type_var col_a, col_b from table_a ... ;
>

Thnx... still, that SELECT INTO looks pretty anoying... it would be neat
to type just:
type_var := col_a, col_b FROM ...

I guess the code would look much more readable...

Mario
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