On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:13 -0400, Joshua Berry wrote: > Is there an easy and efficient way to return a boolean false for a > query that returns no result, and true for one that does return a > result?
Presuming that you're not using the values in temp_table, I think you should be using PERFORM * WHERE ...; and then IF FOUND ... ELSE ... END IF; See here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/plpgsql-statements.html and also follow link to 38.5.5 . -Reece