Benedict Holland <benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> writes:
> I am scratching my head over this one. I have a basic function which
> populates a table inside of it (declared outside of the function but that
> shouldn't matter)  and it requires something like

> insert into table1 (col1, ...)
> select * from foo

> and I get the error "query has no destination for result data". This is
> surely not the case as it's going directly into the insert statement which
> doesn't have output. Any idea how to get around this particularly annoying
> problem?

What PG version?  Could we see the exact text of the function?  I'm
wondering about aliasing problems stemming from function variables named
similarly to the target table or its columns --- newer PG versions are
brighter about that sort of conflict than older ones.

> I have to say, making the switch from t-sql to postgresql has been
> fairly easy except for function debugging.

RAISE NOTICE is the usual substitute for what I think you were doing on
t-sql.  Also, I think EDB is still supporting their plpgsql debugger, so
you might consider experimenting with that.

                        regards, tom lane

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