Re: patch: plpgsql - access records with rec.(expr) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm confused.  How/why is this different from EXECUTE?

EVALUATE would take a string and evaluate it as a PL/PgSQL statement;
EXECUTE takes a string and executes it as a SQL statement. We've
discussed this before (although I may not have called it "EVALUATE" at
the time):

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-10/msg00005.php

-Neil