Re: failed to execute the psql case statement which has the function call.

From: sagar jadhav <sagarjdhv5(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nikhil Ingale <niks(dot)bgm(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: failed to execute the psql case statement which has the function call.
Date: 2022-04-05 13:46:50
Message-ID: CACPo9Dp=aq9cgn2ssyC6YFHsJ5Wbq1ZbRYNDJWeujerQa3TLVA@mail.gmail.com
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Use single quotes ('attribute') for variable in function.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 7:04 PM David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

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> On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Nikhil Ingale <niks(dot)bgm(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've a case statement where I'm calling the user defined postgres
>> function and failed to execute the same. Because it's assuming the variable
>> passed inside the function as a column for the table.
>>
>
> You cannot use variables for identifiers in raw sql. If you need to do
> that you must use dynamic sql - build a string using format and execute it.
>
> David J.
>
>

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