Re: Quoting Problem in PLPGSQL

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:54, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a problem with quoting in plpgsql. I try to insert dynamically
> some conditions into a select statment but for some reason it does not work.
>
> condition := '' AND price > 500 '';
>
> SELECT INTO tmpRec * WHERE  xxxxxx  || condition || ORDER BY userId ;
> What is the correct way to do this ?

FOR tmpRec IN EXECUTE ''SELECT INTO tmpRec * WHERE  xxxxxx '' ||
condition || '' ORDER BY userId'' LOOP
   ...statements...
END LOOP;

From the manual:
        37.6.4. Executing Dynamic Commands
        Oftentimes you will want to generate dynamic commands inside
        your PL/pgSQL functions, that is, commands that will involve
        different tables or different data types each time they are
        executed. PL/pgSQL's normal attempts to cache plans for commands
        will not work in such scenarios. To handle this sort of problem,
        the EXECUTE statement is provided:

        EXECUTE command-string;

        where command-string is an expression yielding a string (of type
        text) containing the command to be executed. This string is fed
        literally to the SQL engine.

        Note in particular that no substitution of PL/pgSQL variables is
        done on the command string. The values of variables must be
        inserted in the command string as it is constructed.

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