Re: Syntax for cmd to EXEC...how many quotes?

David,

I tend to use \ to escape things like ' - I find it makes it somewhat easier
to debug.

What about:

sql_string :=\' INSERT INTO temp_table ( view_name, row_count ) SELECT \'
|| r_rec.viewname ||
\', count(*) FROM \'
|| r_rec.viewname ||
\' ; \' ;

HTH

George

----- Original Message -----
From: "David B" <postgresql(at)thegatelys(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: [SQL] Syntax for cmd to EXEC...how many quotes?

> Folks,
>
> This is driving me crazy...I'm sure it's possible but that I am getting
the
> #quotes wrong in some way...
> I keep getting unterminated string errors...now matter how many quotes I
> use.
>
> I have a FN that I want to loop through all views and populate a table
with
> a count(*) from each views.
>
> To do it I'm doing a LOOP around all views...something like:
>
> FOR r_rec IN SELECT viewname from pg_views
> LOOP
>
> sql_string := 'INSERT INTO temp_table ( view_name, row_count ) SELECT
> ''' || r_rec.viewname || ''', count(*) FROM ' || r_rec.viewname || ' ; '
;
>
> EXEC sql_string ;
>
> END LOOP ;
>
> END ;
>
>
> Building that sql_string is the problem.
> Any thoughts folks?
>
> -D
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