Re: [why copy ? its not correct working outside static

On Fri, 10 May 2002, R.Tichy wrote:

> Hallo, erverybody !
>
> I am working with Postgresql 7.2 on cygwin !
>
> I have this problem inside from Database with functions and inside from
> JDBC....
>
> A Example :
>
> create or replace function copy_data (varchar,varchar) returns varchar
> as '
> declare
> aurl ALIAS FOR $1;
> adelim ALIAS FOR $2;
> begin
>
> -- nice its work very fine with static param ...
> copy transimport from ''/home/usrer/imports/trans.txt'';
>
> -- where default \t is fieldseparator don't work with params wy ?
> copy transimport from aurl;

I'm not sure of the details of why this doesn't work, but
it appears you may be able to make this work using EXECUTE.