The documentation for "select into" covers this and provides your alternatives.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-selectinto.html David J. On Dec 25, 2012, at 10:20, Seref Arikan <serefari...@kurumsalteknoloji.com> wrote: > Greetings, > I have a plpython function that returns a set of records. I loop over them to > insert them into a temp table created by another function. > I wanted to test > select into temp_eav_table (column) select a.column from tbl as a where.... > approach to see if it performs better than the loop. However, I'm not able to > compile the function due to an error that says "temp_eav_table is not a known > variable" > > So the context assumes this is supposed to be a variable. If I try execute > '...', then I have trouble passing a bytea parameter to the python function. > This is what I have at the moment: > > SELECT INTO temp_eav_table (valstring, > featuremappingid, > featurename, > rmtypename, > actualrmtypename, > path, > pathstring) > select selected_node.valstring, > selected_node.featuremappingid, > selected_node.featurename, > selected_node.rmtypename, > selected_node.actualrmtypename, > selected_node.path, > selected_node.pathstring > from py_get_eav_rows_from_pb(payload ) as selected_node; > > any thoughts? > > Best regards > Seref > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
