Document PERFORM limitation when using WITH queries.

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Bruce Momjian 15 years ago
parent a3850a5f75
commit 94bf47db8f
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      doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml

@ -940,6 +940,9 @@ 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

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