Re: Calling functions from within pl/pgsql

Hello

a := exprx

is internally translated :
get result of SELECT exprx
and store it to a

so you can write select sin(10); then you can a := sin(10)

but you can too use subselect like:

SELECT (SELECT v FROM foo LIMIT 1) ~ you can write

a := (SELECT v FROM foo LIMIT 1);

that is equal to SELECT INTO a v FROM foo

Pavel

> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPG
> >SQL-STATEMENTS-ASSIGNMENT
>
> Sure, i missed the
> "As explained above, the expression in such a statement is evaluated by means
> of an SQL SELECT command sent to the main database engine. The expression
> must yield a single value."
> part.
> Thanx.
>
> >
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