Re: Stored Procedure Assistance

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Bradley J. Bartram wrote:

> The first query is simple:
>
> SELECT a FROM table_a WHERE column_a = b
>
> This will return a single row.  The next query takes that derived value 
and 
> does a simliar select that returns multiple rows.
>
> SELECT c FROM table_b WHERE column_b = a
>
> The next query has some logic in php that constructs it.  Basically if c 
> 0
> than the results of query 2 are setup as ORs in the WHERE clause.
>
> SELECT d FROM table_c WHERE column_c = c1 OR column_c = c2, etc.
>
> The first two queries are not a problem, but how can I take the array of
> results from query 2 and put them into query 3?

Are you sure you need plpgsql to get from point a to point d?  It looks
like this could be a single query:

select d from table_c where column_c in
 (select c from table_a, table_b where
  table_a.column_a = b and
  table_b.column_b = table_a.a)

michael