On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:43:01PM -0600, gary jefferson wrote:
Is there a way to use a variable as the name of a table or column in
plpgsql?
No, plpgsql is statically typed, it can't handle the possiblity of the
types of variables changing. Use a more dynamic
language(perl/tcl/python/etc...)
ugh, I'm going down a rathole with this... the dynamic part of the
query is the table name, and therefore, if I want to select into a row
variable, that variable's declaration needs to be dynamic, too. That
seems kind of crazy, and I see no way to do that anyway. Maybe I'm
going about this all
Is there a way to use a variable as the name of a table or column in plpgsql?
This might be a simple question, but I can't find the answer in the
docs. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-declarations.html
hints that there are data types that correspond to table/column, but I
Thanks Michael and Steve.
Related question: If I previously had a
IF EXISTS (select ...)
statement, and the 'select ...' part now needs to be run with EXECUTE,
how do I check for existence? It looks like I need to do an 'INTO'
with a row variable? I can't seem to find an example snippet of
Is there a way to use a variable as the name of a table or column in plpgsql?
This might be a simple question, but I can't find the answer in the
docs. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-declarations.html
hints that there are data types that correspond to table/column, but I
On Jun 23, 2007, at 22:47 , gary jefferson wrote:
Is there a way to use a variable as the name of a table or column
in plpgsql?
AIUI, you need to use EXECUTE and build the query string yourself.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-
On Jun 23, 2007, at 8:47 PM, gary jefferson wrote:
Is there a way to use a variable as the name of a table or column
in plpgsql?
This might be a simple question, but I can't find the answer in the
docs. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/plpgsql-
declarations.html
hints that
