Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?

From: <depstein(at)alliedtesting(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?
Date: 2011-03-24 15:21:36
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Update: It has been suggested to wrap perform around a select like this:

do
$$begin
perform(
with A as (select 1 as foo)
select foo from A
);
end$$;

This won't work if select returns more than one statement:

do
$$begin
perform(
with A as (select generate_series(1,3) as foo)
select foo from A
);
end$$;

ERROR: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression

So I still say it's broken.

(Sorry for top-posting: I am forced to use Outlook at work...)

From: Dmitry Epstein
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 4:29 PM
To: 'pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Cc: Peter Gagarinov; Vladimir Shahov
Subject: Can't use WITH in a PERFORM query in PL/pgSQL?

PostgreSQL 9.0.1

It seems that PostgreSQL doesn't understand the WITH construct when used in a PERFORM query inside PL/pgSQL functions and code blocks:

Example:

do
$$begin
with A as (select 1 as foo)
perform foo from A;
end$$;

syntax error at or near "perform"

do
$$begin
with A as (select 1 as foo)
select foo from A;
end$$;

query has no destination for result data

The only workaround that I can think of is to use a dummy variable to capture the query result. This has to be done even when the query doesn't have a result (as when calling a function returning void).

do
$$declare
dummy record;
begin
with A as (select 1 as foo)
select foo into dummy from A;
end$$;

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