Wade D. Oberpriller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does PL/PGSQL support arrays? Or is their a mechanism to select a set of
> records from a table and iterate over all of them.
>
> For example:
>
> DECLARE recs AS RECORDS; //??
> BEGIN
> SELECT INTO recs * FROM mytable WHERE myfield = 'myvalue';
> for i in 1 .. NumRecs loop
> ...
> end loop;
>
> Is there a way to do something like this??
Do it with one record as:
DECLARE rec record;
BEGIN
FOR rec IN SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE myfield = 'myvalue' LOOP
...
END LOOP;
And BTW, this syntax is documented in the user manual :-)
Jan
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