Re-posting, see quote
David Johnston wrote
>
> Pavel Stehule wrote
>> 2014-04-04 14:16 GMT+02:00 Tjibbe <
>> tjibbe@
>> >:
>>
>>> Thanks that works!
>>>
>>> Little bit confusing ERROR.
>>>
>>
>> yes, it could be - but hard to fix it, because it is based on cooperation
>> two worlds - plpgsql and SQL - and it is sometimes not simple.
>>
>> When you understand how plpgsql interpret use variables in SQL queries,
>> then you understand to this message. Simple rule - never use plpgsql
>> variables in DDL
> Yet, IIRC, if you had done a CREATE TEMP TABLE instead of view the query
> would have worked just fine. The issue is with CREATE VIEW specifically
> because the query itself is part of the final content whereas for CREATE
> TABLE the query is only used to generate the data which is then stored.
>
> David J.
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