Re: dynamic procedure call - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: dynamic procedure call
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In response to dynamic procedure call  (tekwiz <ryoung@medicalpharmacies.com>)
Responses choiche of function language was: Re: dynamic procedure call  (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it>)
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2008/5/9 tekwiz <ryoung@medicalpharmacies.com>:
> How do I code PL/pgSQL to select a procedure name from a table and
> then execute it from within another procedure and pass that procedure
> a particular ROWTYPE and return a ROWTYPE?

you can use EXECUTE statement. But you have to be careful when these
functions will returns different types. Then you have to have in your
application different execution paths. Generally I can say, so plpgsql
isn't well language for this games, and better is using plperl,
plpython or other external language.

Pavel
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