[SQL] SELECT INTO returning more than one row

[Zac]

Hi.

I have this problem in a plpgsql function:
SELECT INTO myvar col FROM table WHERE ...;

IF <query returns more than one row> THEN
        do something
ELSE IF <query returns no rows> THEN
        do something else
ELSE
        do other things

If <query returns no rows> I know that myvar IS NULL OR GET DIAGNOSTICS 
ROW_COUNT is zero.

Is there a way to know if the query returned more than one row?
In Oracle PL/SQL I can catch the TOO_MANY_ROWS exception but in Postgres 
I found no way for doing it:

- myvar is correctly valued with the first occurrence of the result
- FOUND is TRUE
- GET DIAGNOSTICS ROW_COUNT is 1 (it counts only fetched rows)

I tried to use a cursor but the only way to know how many rows it 
returned is to fetch them all. (And I don't like this solution)

Thanks in advance.

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