Re: EXECUTE problem on schema

On Friday 28 March 2003 01:59, jack wrote:

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> And the following are the example.

Aha, the problem is not EXECUTE but QUOTE_IDENT:

test=# SELECT quote_ident('public.test_j2');
quote_ident
------------------
"public.test_j2"
(1 row)

test=# SELECT * FROM "public.test_j2";
ERROR: Relation "public.test_j2" does not exist

which is correct, because schema and relation names can contain periods.
To quote a schema-qualified relation name you need something like
"public"."test_j2" (or "public"."table.with_period_in_name") which
quote_indent can't handle because it doesn't know whether the
period is a schema / relation name divider or part of the relation name.

This has come up before, see:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-11/msg00892.php

It would probably be easiest to leave out the quote_ident from your
function definition and do the quoting manually in the function call,
if necessary, which mostly isn't.

Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net