Re: EXECUTE of a 'create table' string is not happening

2011/2/22 Ralph Smith <rsmith(at)10kinfo(dot)com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm passing a tablename and two columnnames into a function so that I can
> SELECT Records in a FOR LOOP using 'fixed' field names.
> Using the passed params I construct the create table command and then alter
> the names of two columns.
>
> When I 'build' the function and then run my query to use the function w/ a
> different offset it works the first time.
> The first time ONLY.  But actually it doesn't work, it just doesn't error
> the first run.
> Subsequent runs tell me that relation ######## doesn't exist, at the
> FOR...LOOP line, after ALTERing the table.
>
> I build the string and it's good:
> CREATE TABLE temp_gentokenstable AS SELECT businessid, publicname FROM
> businesscontact ORDER BY businessid OFFSET 200000 LIMIT 10000 ;
>
> I'm forced to use v7.4.
>
> If this is a known error, can I (with the version  ; ^)  ) get around it?

>
> Ultimately I need to FOR..LOOP through through records and the table and
> cols will change.  Any suggestions???
>

use a EXECUTE statement and FOR IN EXECUTE statement

regards

Pavel Stehule

> THANKS!
>
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>
> Ralph
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