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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-09-06 13:41:32 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-09-06 13:42:00 -0400
commitdcc728eef49bc0dbe2f88f9a56bda007afc9f46e (patch)
treeb6932139d6957974b805174059583bce4607051b
parent01543329514475e2c42d52891ff4245bb9f5d83c (diff)
Document PERFORM limitation when using WITH queries.
Backpatch to 9.0 and 9.1. Report from depstein@alliedtesting.com.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
index 82e7675c271..8049a6c03af 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
@@ -845,6 +845,9 @@ PERFORM <replaceable>query</replaceable>;
result. Write the <replaceable>query</replaceable> the same
way you would write an SQL <command>SELECT</> command, but replace the
initial keyword <command>SELECT</> with <command>PERFORM</command>.
+ For <keyword>WITH</> queries, use <keyword>PERFORM</> and then
+ place the query in parentheses. (In this case, the query can only
+ return one row.)
<application>PL/pgSQL</application> variables will be
substituted into the query just as for commands that return no result,
and the plan is cached in the same way. Also, the special variable