Re: executing dynamic commands

From: "codeWarrior" <gpatnude(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: executing dynamic commands
Date: 2006-02-01 15:45:18
Message-ID: drql13$2jim$1@news.hub.org
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Talk about obfuscated.... Are you trying to retrieve the table structure /
schema from the PG System Catalogs ?

If so -- you are better off using a VIEW instead of a manual procedure
because it will automatically kepp up with the current schema definition...

Try this:

-- DROP VIEW sys_table_schemas;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW sys_table_schemas AS
SELECT pc.oid AS tbl_oid, pc.relname::character varying AS table_name,
pa.attname::character varying AS column_name, pt.typname AS data_type,
CASE
WHEN substr(pt.typname::text, 1, 3)::name = 'int'::name THEN
'integer'::name
WHEN pt.typname = 'bool'::name THEN 'boolean'::name
ELSE pt.typname
END AS udt_name, pa.attnum AS ordinal_position, 254 AS str_length,
CASE
WHEN pa.attnotnull THEN false
ELSE true
END AS nulls_allowed,
CASE
WHEN substr(pa.attname::text, 1, 3) = 'lu_'::text THEN true
ELSE false
END AS lookup,
CASE
WHEN pd.description::character varying IS NOT NULL THEN
pd.description::character varying
WHEN pa.attname IS NOT NULL THEN pa.attname::character varying
ELSE NULL::character varying
END AS label
FROM ONLY pg_class pc
JOIN ONLY pg_attribute pa ON pc.oid = pa.attrelid AND pc.relnamespace =
2200::oid AND pc.reltype > 0::oid AND (pc.relkind = 'r'::"char" OR
pc.relkind = 'v'::"char")
JOIN ONLY pg_type pt ON pa.atttypid = pt.oid
LEFT JOIN ONLY pg_description pd ON pc.oid = pd.objoid AND pa.attnum =
pd.objsubid
WHERE pa.attnum > 0
ORDER BY pc.relname::character varying, pa.attnum;

ALTER TABLE sys_table_schemas OWNER TO "public";

SELECT * FROM sys_table_schemas;

<christian(dot)michels(at)eifelgeist(dot)com> wrote in message
news:15802822(dot)125111138807576371(dot)JavaMail(dot)servlet(at)kundenserver(dot)(dot)(dot)
> Hi,
>
> I user PostgreSQl 8.0.4 on Win2003 Server and write a function to copy
> rows from one table into another table with the same column definition.
> My first approach was to use something like:
>
> query_value := 'INSERT INTO ' || tabledest || ' SELECT * FROM ' ||
> tablesrc;
> EXECUTE query_value;
>
> This only works if the column definition AND the order between source and
> destination is the same !
> In my case I have always the same column definitions but they are not in
> the same order between source and destination table.
> What I tryed then is to loop through the column definition of the source
> and query the sourcetable for the value. For that I have to execut a query
> with dynamic tablename and dynamic columname to generate two stings one
> with the columndefinitin and one with the columnvalues to exececute
> something like: INSERT INTO tabelfoo (columndefinitinstring) VALUES
> (columnvaluesstring)
>
> see snip of function:
>
> fieldvalues RECORD;
> output RECORD;
> insertvalues VARCHAR;
> fieldname VARCHAR;
>
>
> -- Get Attribute List from Table and write it to output
> -- Read Values of Fieldname from source
> query_value := 'select * from ' || tablesrc ;
>
> FOR fieldvalues IN EXECUTE query_value LOOP
>
> FOR output IN SELECT a.attnum,
> a.attname AS field,
> FROM
> pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_type t
> WHERE
> c.relname = tablesrc AND
> a.attnum > 0 AND
> a.attrelid = c.oid AND
> a.atttypid = t.oid
> ORDER BY a.attnum LOOP
>
> -- Read Field Name from Out Table
> fieldname := output.field;
>
> -- Write Field Name into Variable
> IF insertcolumns IS NULL THEN
> insertcolumns := fieldname;
> ELSE
> insertcolumns := insertcolumns || ',' || fieldname;
> END IF;
>
> Until here everyting is fine ... but now I try to query the value from
> RECORD fieldvalues with the columname fieldname variable from the inner
> loop !
> I tryed the following ...
>
> query_value := 'select quote_ident(' || fieldvalues || ').quote_literal('
> || fieldname ||')';
>
> EXECUTE query_value;
>
>
> and I get the following error message ...
>
> ERROR: could not find array type for data type record
> CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT 'select quote_ident(' || $1 ||
> ').quote_literal(' || $2 ||')'"
> PL/pgSQL function "prx_db__appendtable" line 87 at assignment
>
>
> END LOOP;
>
> END LOOP;
>
> I know the function is not runnable, but my question is how can I
> dynamically combine "fieldvalues"."fieldname" to read the values column by
> colum out if a RECORD variable to generate the "columnvaluesstring"
> mentioned above ?!
> Maybe this approach is to complicated and there is a quick and easy
> solution ?!
>
> Any help is very much appreciated !!
>
> Thanx a lot & Regards
>
> Chris
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
>

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