Re: About a PL/pgSQL function

From: Joel Burton <joel(at)joelburton(dot)com>
To: Ferdinand Smit <ferdinand(at)telegraafnet(dot)nl>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: About a PL/pgSQL function
Date: 2002-06-06 16:41:32
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0206061239340.12975-100000@temp.joelburton.com
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Ferdinand Smit wrote:

> When i create a function with a "static" table name, it works fine.
> EXECUTE does not allow SELECT INTO, so does anyone have an other solution?

Use:

DECLARE
cursorname refcursor;
varname int;
BEGIN
OPEN cursorname FOR EXECUTE ''SELECT ... FROM '' || $1 || ...;
FETCH cursorname INTO varname;
CLOSE cursorname;
RETURN varname;
END;

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