Thread: Generic/Ad-Hoc Select Function

On Saturday 03 June 2006 02:17 pm, "Roy W Bradley" <rbradley@fusiion.com> thus
communicated:
--> I am new to Postgresql and was wondering if it is possible to create an
 ad-hoc select query function, where the table name, and the where clause
 were passed to the function and it returned a result set for the table? -->
--> Thanks
--> Roy
-->

You can generate dynamic SELECT statements. See the docs at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:17:45 -0700,
  Roy W Bradley <rbradley@fusiion.com> wrote:
> I am new to Postgresql and was wondering if it is possible to create an ad-hoc select query function, where the table
name,and the where clause were passed to the function and it returned a result set for the table?   

Yes. You should be able to do this in most of not all of the PLs. A good
start is to read this:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN