Re: [HACKERS] Re: PL/PgSQL discussion

David Gould wrote:
>
> >
> > jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) wrote:
> >
> > > But I would like to have some discussion on language itself.
> > > So I wrote down what I had in mind. The document is appended
> > > below.
> > >
> > > Please comment/suggest !
>
> A question. Will it be possible to call functions from the PL/pgSQL? This
> covers a fair bit, for example to evaluate expressions and casts etc as
> well as calling user functions.
>
> Or was this covered and I just missed it somehow?

It is covered automagically by the way I'm implementing the
assignement. The assign code internally does a SELECT. And
thus:

n := count(*) from t1;

works (even if it's far from standard I think).

Jan

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