Re: cursor question

Hello

when you would to change name of table - you have to use dynamic query

38.7.2.2. OPEN FOR EXECUTE

OPEN unbound_cursor [ [ NO ] SCROLL ] FOR EXECUTE query_string;


http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html

regards
Pavel Stehule

2009/2/25 Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de>:
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> Hi,
>
> short question. Why is this not possible:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION user_cursor_open(text) RETURNS refcursor AS $$
> DECLARE
>        curs1 CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM $1;
> BEGIN
>        OPEN curs1;
>        RETURN curs1;
> END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> Or, how do I set a parameter when using cursor?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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> Andreas Wenk
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