Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 4AAC26AF.2000206@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (decibel <decibel@decibel.org>)
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decibel wrote:
>
>
> Speaking of concatenation...
>
> Something I find sorely missing in plpgsql is the ability to put 
> variables inside of a string, ie:
>
> DECLARE
> v_table text := ...
> v_sql text;
> BEGIN
> v_sql := "SELECT * FROM $v_table";
>
> Of course, I'm assuming that if it was easy to do that it would be 
> done already... but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
>

Then use a language that supports variable interpolation in strings, 
like plperl, plpythonu, plruby .... instead of plpgsql.

cheers

andrew


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