Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE

On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> yes, in this context you should not use a PERFORM
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> PL/pgSQL protect you before useless queries - so you can use a CTE without returned result directly or CTE with result via PERFORM statement (and in this case it must be unmodifing CTE).
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> Sorry, I don't see any problem - why you return some from CTE and then you throw this result?

I am passing the values returned from a CTE to a call to pg_notify(). I do not care to collect the output of pg_notify(), which returns VOID.

Best,

David