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This patch includes a lot of minor cleanups to the SGML documentation,

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including:

- replacing all the appropriate usages of <citetitle>PostgreSQL
...</citetitle> with &cite-user;, &cite-admin;, and so on

- fix an omission in the EXECUTE documentation

- add some more text to the EXPLAIN documentation

- improve the PL/PgSQL RETURN NEXT documentation (more work to do here)

- minor markup fixes


Neil Conway
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Bruce Momjian
2003-01-19 00:13:31 +00:00
parent 2042daf5c3
commit be2b660ecd
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<!--
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/execute.sgml,v 1.1 2002/08/27 04:55:07 tgl Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/execute.sgml,v 1.2 2003/01/19 00:13:29 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<date>2002-08-12</date>
</refsynopsisdivinfo>
<synopsis>
EXECUTE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">plan_name</replaceable> [ (<replaceable class="PARAMETER">parameter</replaceable> [, ...] ) ]
EXECUTE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">plan_name</replaceable> [ (<replaceable class="PARAMETER">parameter</replaceable> [, ...] ) ] [ INTO [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> ]
</synopsis>
<refsect2 id="R2-SQL-EXECUTE-1">
@@ -42,16 +42,28 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">parameter</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The actual value of a parameter to the prepared query.
This must be an expression yielding a value of a type
compatible with
the data-type specified for this parameter position in the
<command>PREPARE</command> statement that created the prepared
query.
The actual value of a parameter to the prepared query. This
must be an expression yielding a value of a type compatible
with the data-type specified for this parameter position in
the <command>PREPARE</command> statement that created the
prepared query.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The name of the table in which to store the results of
executing the query (if it is a <command>SELECT</command>). If
no table is specified, the results are returned to the client
(as normal).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -85,6 +97,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
name of a prepared query must be unique within a database session.
</para>
<para>
Like <command>SELECT INTO</command>, <command>EXECUTE</command> can
be used to store the results of executing the query in a table by
specifying an INTO clause. For more information on this behabior,
consult the reference for <xref linkend="sql-selectinto">.
</para>
<para>
For more information on the creation and usage of prepared queries,
see <xref linkend="sql-prepare" endterm="sql-prepare-title">.