On 08/28/2014 05:03 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > I don't have to squint that hard -- I've always been comfortable > with the definition of a table as a relation variable, and it's not > too big a stretch to expand that to a tuplestore. ;-) In fact, I > will be surprised if someone doesn't latch onto this to create a > new "declared temporary table" that only exists within the scope of > a compound statement (i.e., a BEGIN/END block). You would DECLARE > them just like you would a scalar variable in a PL, and they would > have the same scope. > > I'll take a look at doing this in the next couple days, and see > whether doing it that way is as easy as it seems on the face of it.
Oracle's TABLE variables in PL/SQL are quite similar; it might be worth observing how they work for comparison. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
