Re: Using results from DELETE ... RETURNING

Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Shak wrote:
>> Something like:
>> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (DELETE FROM a RETURNING *) ;
>> sounds reasonable but results in a syntax error. I am able to return single
>> results into a variable or record, but not more than one result.

> You can't. It's on the TODO list (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo).

I think you can loop over the results in plpgsql, for instance

for rec in DELETE FROM a RETURNING * loop
... do something with rec ...
end loop;

regards, tom lane