Re: stored procs in postgresql

thanks,

I didn't even know about the string concatination function for this.
Unfortunately, it was of no help. Specificly I am trying this, with
the following error:

SQL error:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "' || $2 || '" at character 110

In statement:

CREATE FUNCTION "getcensusbound" (geometry, character) RETURNS
character AS 'SELECT bound_table.name
FROM '' || $2 || '' bound_table
WHERE bound_table.the_geom::bytea != ''null''::bytea AND
contains(geometryn(bound_table.the_geom, 1), $1) = true;' LANGUAGE
"sql"
RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT

-Cere

On 9/24/05, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
> ceremona(at)gmail(dot)com writes:
> > I have been having some trouble with plsql stored procs in postgres in
> > that I can
> > make a table name a variable in the stored proc. Is there some
> > special way to make this happen that I am unaware of?
> >
> > For example, I want to do something like:
> >
> > stored_proc(integer,varchar)
> >
> > SELECT table_name.id
> > FROM table_name $2
> > WHERE table_name.id=$1
> >
> > but I get an error about the $2 argument being no good.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can deal with this?
>
> To do this sort of thing, you need to build up the query as a string,
> and EXECUTE it.
>
> Thus...
> query := 'select t.id from ' || $2 || ' t where t.id = ' || $1 || ';';
>
> The other vital problem is that the select is in bad form. The actual
> name of the table needs to come BEFORE the alias, not after.
>
> The following would represent more nearly legitimate SQL...
>
> SELECT table_name.id
> FROM $2 table_name
> WHERE table_name.id=$1
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