Re: select from a dynamic table name

On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 05:58 PM, Jason Kwok wrote:

> Since I could return a rowset (some records) from a function of pgsql or
> plpgsql, I saved all the records into a temp file. Then I want to get
> the
> rowset by another select statement from this temp table with dynamic
> name,
> could I do something like the folowing :
>
> select * from a_dynamic_table_name ?

How about

exec 'select * from '&somefunc();

Where somefunc() returns the name of the temporary table.
You'll have to delete it after, so it will be a little more messy.

There was talk in the list on functions returning record sets being a
feature of 7.2 and there being some patches for 7.1 that permited it.

Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> Wrote on Wed Aug 15, 2001 03:49:03 PM
Australia/Sydney
> As said, in v7.2 we'll have the ability to return cursors
> from functions (and I'm looking actually into the ability of
> doing RETURN AND RESUME). So there is at least some sort of
> workaround on the horizon.

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