I believe (although I haven't tried it) that pltcl will allow
you to do things such as this.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Volker Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I don't think you can use DDL(data definition language) in PL/SQL.
> > create table is not DML(data munipulation language) instead
> > it's a DDL.
> Thanks, but that leaves me with a problem.
> What I really want to do is something like
> select str from person where id=1234;
> where str is a string that contains an expression like
> famname || ', ' || givname
> i.e. the final select is
> select famname || ', ' || givname from person where id=1234;
> I know it's possible by building the select e.g. in bash
> and calling psql with it as an argument, but do you see a possibility
> that is closer to Postgres, e.g. in plpgsql?
