Re: "EXECUTE ... into var" doesn't set FOUND: bug or feature?

2010/9/16 Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-general@apartia.org>:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:12:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-general@apartia.org> writes:
>> > I noticed that in a pl/pgsql function FOUND is not set after an
>> >     EXECUTE ... into var;
>> > Bug or feature?
>>
>> It's behaving as documented:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-DIAGNOSTICS
>>
>> Adding EXECUTE to the list of statements that change FOUND would have a
>> rather large risk of breaking existing plpgsql functions, IMO.
>
> but is really surprising and non-intuitive, given that 'return query
> execute' does.

RETURN QUERY EXECUTE is a new statement. And it has not original in
PL/SQL so there are not reason to copy misfeature from Oracle.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

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