Re: plpgsql arrays

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... alternatively is there a way to read two results streams
>> simultaneously?
>
> Use two cursors and FETCH from each as needed?  In recent releases you
> can even scroll backwards, which you're going to need to do to make
> a merge join work.

What would be the syntax for putting a single row from a cursor into a
variable? I have tried:

FETCH INTO left left_cursor;

which says syntax error, and

left = FETCH left_cursor;

which gives the error 'ERROR:  missing datatype declaration at or near "="'

Matthew

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