Re: plpgsql mixing variable in SELECT INTO ?

Maybe he is looking at a shorthand for assigning a row variable to an
other...



Tom Lane wrote:
>
> "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> > You mean I cant use the full power of the SELECT as mentioned in the manual
> > and when using SELECT INTO I must use * and I can refine my query to some of
> > the fields ?
>
> Certainly you can.  But when you assign into a row variable, you have to
> provide all the row variable's columns, in order.  How else would you
> expect it to work?
>
> > Also its quite strange that my code worked in 7.3.1-
>
> I don't believe it.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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