Re: EXECUTE USING problem

Hello

2011/11/15 Graham <graham(at)gpmd(dot)co(dot)uk>:
> Using PG 9.0.3, I wish to dynamically reference a column in a table passed
> into a PL/PgSQL function as follows:
>
> -- A table with some values.
>  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table1;
>  CREATE TABLE table1 (
>     code INT,
>     descr TEXT
>  );
>
> INSERT INTO table1 VALUES ('1','a');
> INSERT INTO table1 VALUES ('2','b');
>
> -- The function code.
> DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS foo (TEXT);
> CREATE FUNCTION foo (tbl_name TEXT) RETURNS VOID
>
> AS $$
> DECLARE
>    r RECORD;
>    d TEXT;
> BEGIN
>    FOR r IN
>    EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM ' || tbl_name
>    LOOP
>    --SELECT r.descr INTO d; --IT WORK
>    EXECUTE 'SELECT ($1)' || '.descr' INTO d USING r;     --DOES NOT WORK
>    RAISE NOTICE '%', d;
> END LOOP;
>
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql STRICT;
>
> -- Call foo function on table1
> SELECT foo('table1');
>
>
> Another post suggested EXECUTE 'SELECT $1::text::table1.descr' INTO d USING
> r; but this does not work either. Can this be achieved currently? what would
> be the syntax ?
>

you cannot to do it in plpgsql :(. Try to use PLPython or PLPerl

I found a working solution, but it is ugly - only plpgsql is just not
good language for this purpose. Maybe with HStore it can be done more
cleanly

CREATE or replace FUNCTION foo (tbl_name TEXT) RETURNS VOID
AS $$
DECLARE
r RECORD;
d TEXT;
BEGIN
FOR r IN
EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM ' || tbl_name
LOOP
EXECUTE 'SELECT (''' || replace(r::text,'''','''''') || '''::' ||
tbl_name || ').descr' INTO d;
RAISE NOTICE '%', d;
END LOOP;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql STRICT;

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> Thanks in advance.
>
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