Re: PG and dynamic statements in stored procedures/triggers? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Monday, March 07, 2011 6:32:44 am Durumdara wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In other RDBMS I found a way to make dynamic statements.
> I can use variables, or concat the SQL segments, and execute it all.
>
> :tablename = call CreateTempTable;
>
> insert into :tablename ....
> drop table :tablename
>
> or (FireBird like cursor handling):
>
> sql = "select * from " || :tablename || " where..."
> for select :sql ....
> ...
>
> Can I do same thing in PGSQL too?
>
> Thanks:
>    dd

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-
STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN
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Adrian Klaver
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