On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:54:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> which is that you can use aggregate functions in the RETURNING list and
> get a single-row result that is aggregated across all affected rows.
> It's too late to consider implementing that for 8.2, I fear, but I think
> maybe we should put it on the TODO list for later.
Aggregates sound interesting, though I'm not sure how useful they'd
actually be. I think something like
FOR v_row IN (UPDATE ... RETURNING ...)
would be a lot more useful (if it's not already in the patch).
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