Re: INSERT doc discrepancy

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Kristo Kaiv <kristo(dot)kaiv(at)skype(dot)net>, Postgres-General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT doc discrepancy
Date: 2007-08-28 17:07:51
Message-ID: 29182.1188320871@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Kristo Kaiv wrote:
>> but it seems if i want to return the result into a record i have to use it
>> with INTO clause in the end:

> Ah, you are using it in plpgsql! OK, but the explanation to the
> discrepancy is that the second INTO is not part of the SQL sentence;
> it's plpgsql only, and is parsed by its internal parser, so not really
> part of the SQL grammar.

And, in fact, the plpgsql documentation does show this usage (section
38.5.3 in devel docs, but I think the numbering has changed since 8.2).

regards, tom lane

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