| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types |
| Date: | 2009-09-12 22:54:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4AAC26AF.2000206@dunslane.net |
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decibel wrote:
>
>
> Speaking of concatenation...
>
> Something I find sorely missing in plpgsql is the ability to put
> variables inside of a string, ie:
>
> DECLARE
> v_table text := ...
> v_sql text;
> BEGIN
> v_sql := "SELECT * FROM $v_table";
>
> Of course, I'm assuming that if it was easy to do that it would be
> done already... but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
>
Then use a language that supports variable interpolation in strings,
like plperl, plpythonu, plruby .... instead of plpgsql.
cheers
andrew
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