A little lost but the first thing that stands out is that you are attempting to create an actual table instead of a temporary table. Not sure if that difference is meaningful to the function but procedurally is there a reason to create the permanent table instead of a temporary one?
If you do need a permanent table would you be able to generate the data as part of routine maintenance and/or via triggers instead of building out the entire (or portion) of the table each time? I do not think you have provided enough code to get good feedback. The entire function would probably help - though maybe a simplified version but one that still exhibits the behavior in question. You also do not provide the minor release level which may be relevant. David J. From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Smith Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:05 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] EXECUTE of a 'create table' string is not happening Hi, I'm passing a tablename and two columnnames into a function so that I can SELECT Records in a FOR LOOP using 'fixed' field names. Using the passed params I construct the create table command and then alter the names of two columns. When I 'build' the function and then run my query to use the function w/ a different offset it works the first time. The first time ONLY. But actually it doesn't work, it just doesn't error the first run. Subsequent runs tell me that relation ######## doesn't exist, at the FOR...LOOP line, after ALTERing the table. I build the string and it's good: CREATE TABLE temp_gentokenstable AS SELECT businessid, publicname FROM businesscontact ORDER BY businessid OFFSET 200000 LIMIT 10000 ; I'm forced to use v7.4. If this is a known error, can I (with the version ; ^) ) get around it? Ultimately I need to FOR..LOOP through through records and the table and cols will change. Any suggestions??? THANKS! -- Ralph _________________________
