Re: select into

Hi,
Thanks very much for all the suggestions. Like Andreas said i have to use EXECUTE to do this. That was my guess too but i was putting the INTO cluase into the string before executing it. This is a step forward. The problem now is getting the into to work with a record. Am using a RECORD variable after declaring it in the INTO clause. pg is complaining

ERROR: record "svc_data_rec" is not assigned yet
DETAIL: The tuple structure of a not-yet-assigned record is indeterminate.
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "foo" line 130 at execute statement

I read in the docs the following, "The INTO clause specifies where the results of a SELECT command should be assigned. If a row or variable list is provided, it must exactly match the structure of the results produced by the SELECT (when a record variable is used, it will configure itself to match the result's structure automatically)." That i take to mean that the above is ok. But it ain't.

Thanks again for your guys help...

"A. Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> wrote: am Wed, dem 22.11.2006, um 0:28:15 -0800 mailte Mulham freshcode folgendes:
> Hi guys,
>
> Am new to sql scripting so this might be a stupid question. Am getting an
> error while trying to do the following
>
> SELECT INTO svc_data_rec * from svc_tbl_name where 'uid' = sub_id;
>
> where svc_data_rec is defined as record and svc_tbl_name is a varchar that
> holds the name of a table and sub_id is another varchar. the error message is

You should rewrite your plpgsql-function. You can't handle with
string-vars in this way, you must create a string with your complete sql
and EXECUTE this string.

Read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Andreas
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