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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:48:22 -0700
From: elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Avi Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] is General Bits Issue # 43 correct?
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Yep, you are right.  Good catch.

Note, however, you have to do the extra quotes I was warning
about if the id is text:

for v_tmp in execute ''select min(price) as price_selected_min,
                      max(price) as price_selected_max
                      from table1
                      where id = '''''' || myid ||
                      '''''' and 1 = 1 '' loop

And thank you!  I will publish the correction before most
people read the article :-)

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:23:33PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> In this issue the following statement is made:
> 
> "In plpgsql, you cannot run a dynamic SELECT statement and be able to 
> do anything with the selected data. You cannot assign the selected 
> value to a variable or return the selected value from the function. You 
> can, however, easily construct INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements as 
> well a DDL (Data Definition Language: CREATE, ALTER, etc.)"
> 
> This is not my experience.  For example, I am doing the following in my 
> code and it works just fine:
> 
> for v_tmp in execute ''select min(list_price) as price_selected_min, 
> max(list_price) as price_selected_max
>       from table1
>       where xx_id = '' || p_xx_id ||
>       '' and date_deleted is null'' loop
> 
>       v_price_selected_min := v_tmp.price_selected_min;
>       v_price_selected_max := v_tmp.price_selected_max;
> 
> end loop;
> 
> It works just fine for me.
> 
> I also can return result set using
> 
> for r in execute ''select statement'' loop
>                  return next r;
> end loop;
> 
> Avi
> 
> 
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