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Re: Using results from DELETE ... RETURNING

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Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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