PostgreSQL - Iterate over results of query

Question

I am creating a function in pgsql script language, and what I want to do in this point is iterate over the results of a query and for each row do something specific. My current try is the following, where temprow is declared as temprow user_data.users%rowtype. The code in question is the following:

FOR temprow IN
        SELECT * FROM user_data.users ORDER BY user_seasonpts DESC LIMIT 10
    LOOP
        SELECT user_id,user_seasonpts INTO player_idd,season_ptss FROM temprow;
        INSERT INTO user_data.leaderboards (season_num,player_id,season_pts) VALUES (old_seasonnum,player_idd,season_ptss);
    END LOOP;  

However I get the following error from this: ERROR: relation "temprow" does not exist. If it's clear what I want to be done, could you point to me the right way to do it?

Answer 1

temprow is a record variable which is bound in turn to each record of the first SELECT.

So you should write:

FOR temprow IN
        SELECT * FROM user_data.users ORDER BY user_seasonpts DESC LIMIT 10
    LOOP
        INSERT INTO user_data.leaderboards (season_num,player_id,season_pts) VALUES (old_seasonnum,temprow.userd_id,temprow.season_ptss);
    END LOOP;

This loop could be further simplified as a single query:

INSERT INTO user_data.leaderboards (season_num,player_id,season_pts)
SELECT old_seasonnum,player_idd,season_ptss FROM user_data.users ORDER BY user_seasonpts DESC LIMIT 10