On 08/28/2014 05:03 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I don't have to squint that hard -- I've always been comfortable
> with the definition of a table as a relation variable, and it's not
> too big a stretch to expand that to a tuplestore. ;-) In fact, I
> will be surprised if someone doesn't latch onto this to create a
> new "declared temporary table" that only exists within the scope of
> a compound statement (i.e., a BEGIN/END block). You would DECLARE
> them just like you would a scalar variable in a PL, and they would
> have the same scope.
>
> I'll take a look at doing this in the next couple days, and see
> whether doing it that way is as easy as it seems on the face of it.
Oracle's TABLE variables in PL/SQL are quite similar; it might be worth
observing how they work for comparison.
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