Re: proposal: doc: simplify examples of dynamic SQL

On Friday, March 20, 2015, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 05:50:03PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > ​I'm not sure that this particular feature of the standard is something
> we
> > should encourage.
> >
> > Its actually quite useful in this situation, and so maybe the novelty is
> just
> > making me nervous,​ but the only reason I know of this behavior is
> because I've
> > seen a number of posts in just the past couple of years when people
> > accidentally used this feature and then were surprised when they didn't
> get an
> > error. If this stays I would suggest that we take the opportunity to
> > cross-reference back to where the syntax is defined so people aren't left
> > scratching their heads as to why it works - or why if they remove the
> newline
> > in their own attempt the code suddenly breaks.
>
> Yeah, I am kind on the fence about it, but it is a nice feature,
> particulary for PL/pgSQL programs. I added a mention of the string
> concatentation feature --- patch attached, and URL updated.
>
>
The third option is to just embed a new line in the string itself.

Execute Format(’...
...', tbl)
USING val

David J.