You can't use execute like that it discards the result unless you use it
in a FOR rec IN EXECUTE statement then you can get the results out.
EXECUTE ''UPDATE ''||obj.relname||'' set lastaccess = NULL;'';
This will work
Darren
On 19 Jun 2002, Tom Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 10:09, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 Jun 2002 2:25 pm, Tom Jenkins wrote:
> > > hello all,
> > > i hope somebody can shed some light on a problem i'm having with
> > > pl/pgsql.
> >
> > > PERFORM ''update % set lastaccess = NULL;'', obj.relname ;
> >
> > Are you sure this shouldn't be EXECUTE (build the sql-string normally first)
> >
>
> hrmmm.. replacing PERFORM with EXECUTE results in an error
>
> NOTICE: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function
> clear_lastaccess
> NOTICE: line 6 at execute statement
> ERROR: query "SELECT 'update % set lastaccess = NULL;', $1 " returned
> 2 columns
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Darren Ferguson
