Re: PL/pgsql EXECUTE 'SELECT INTO ...'

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: PL/pgsql EXECUTE 'SELECT INTO ...'
Date: 2001-02-08 19:49:26
Message-ID: 12696.981661766@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> I am inclined to keep our options open by forbidding EXECUTE 'SELECT
>> INTO ...' for now. That's more than a tad annoying, because that leaves
>> no useful way to do a dynamically-built SELECT, but if we don't forbid
>> it I think we'll regret it later.

> You can always use CREATE TABLE AS.

Does SPI_exec() support that? (Tries it ... seems to work ...)
Cool. OK, we have the bases covered then; there's no need to allow
SELECT INTO inside EXECUTE until we can make it work as expected.

regards, tom lane

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