Re: I must be blind...

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I don't think you can use PERFORM like that. Try:

Actually I believe he can; after looking at the manual I realized that
the problem is that PERFORM is syntactically a substitute for SELECT.
In other words he needed to write

    PERFORM 1 FROM orders ...
not
    PERFORM SELECT 1 FROM orders ...

            regards, tom lane