Re: dynamic insert in plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sam Mason
Subject Re: dynamic insert in plpgsql
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Msg-id 20100108145858.GD5407@samason.me.uk
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In response to dynamic insert in plpgsql  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: dynamic insert in plpgsql  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:55:53PM +0000, Grzegorz Jaaakiewicz wrote:
> Is there any nice way to do something like that in plpgsql:
>
>   EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO '||partition_table_name||' VALUES'||(NEW.*)||'';
>
> It would probably work, but some values are NULL, and plpgsql
> interpreter just puts empty space there. So I get ('1',2,3,,,); Which
> obviously is confusing INSERT.

Yup, this thing is a bit fiddly.  Try:

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-09/msg01176.php

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

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