From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:41:30 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document PERFORM limitation when using WITH queries.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_0~16
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94bf47db8ffc13005d9b14ec3331f6db94a91d46;p=postgresql

Document PERFORM limitation when using WITH queries.

Backpatch to 9.0 and 9.1.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
index 20bc991083..76fa78c8ec 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
+++ b/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