Re: returning values to variables from dynamic SQL

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From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
On Behalf Of James Sharrett
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 6:24 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] returning values to variables from dynamic SQL

I have a PG function ( using plpgsql) that calls a number of sub functions
also in plpgsql.  I have two main problems that seem to be variations on the
same theme of running dynamic SQL from a variable with the EXECUTE statement
and returning the results back to a variable defined in the calling
function.

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Please read:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGS
QL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Basically when you use "EXECUTE" you do not embed the "INTO" as part of the
SQL query but rather INTO becomes a modifier of the EXECUTE itself:

EXECUTE 'some query'  INTO {variables}

David J.