Re: Method to pass data between queries in a multi-statement transaction

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:30 PM Souvik Bhattacherjee <kivuosb@gmail.com> wrote:

> What if I need the result of the join to be stored into table3 as well as the tuples that participated in the query to be deleted from table1. The following can be done without the need to transfer values from the previous query into the next:

begin;

insert into table3 (id, attr1, attr2) (select t1.cid, t1.empname, t2.dept from table1 t1, table2 t2 where t1.cid = t2.cid);

delete from table1 where cid in (select c.cid from table1 t1, table2 t2 where t1.cid = t2.cid);

commit;

You can use INSERT...RETURNING in a WITH query:

postgres=# create table foo (a integer);

CREATE TABLE

postgres=# create table bar (b integer);

CREATE TABLE

postgres=# insert into bar values (42);

INSERT 0 1

postgres=# with i as (insert into foo values (42) returning a) delete from bar where b = (select a from i);

DELETE 1

-Michel

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:16 PM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:04 PM Souvik Bhattacherjee <kivuosb@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to pass some values between queries in a multi-statement transaction. For example, consider the following representative multi-statement transaction:

begin;

select * from table1 t1, table2 t2 where t1.cid = t2.cid;

delete from table1 where cid in (values-to-be-populated-from-the-previous-query);

commit;

There are few if any situations where you need to immediately and completely pass all values from one query to another in the same transaction where the queries cannot just be combined into a single statement.  Your representative example is one that is easily combined into a single statement.

Now, the stuff you are trying seems to indicate you are trying to do something in C, inside the engine itself, with all of this.  If that is the case you may want to be more clear as to what you are attempting to do.  But as far as server SQL goes the only persistence area are tables/relations - including temporary ones.

David J.