Re: tablename as attribute in pgplsql

On Thu, 22 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Beno�t Bournon wrote:

> DECLARE
>    usertablename ALIAS FOR $1 ;
>    userid ALIAS FOR $2 ;
>
>    id_lang BIGINT ;
>
>    var VARCHAR(200) ;
>
> BEGIN
>       var := 'client' ;
>
>       SELECT id_language INTO id_lang FROM client WHERE id_user = userid ;
>       IF NOT (id_lang = 1 OR id_lang = 3) THEN
>           id_lang = 1 ;
>       END IF ;
>
>       RETURN id_lang ;
>
> END ;
>
> I want to use client table as a variable
>
> How could I do

Look at the documentation for EXECUTE.  Unfortunately using EXECUTE into a
variable is a little complicated right now AFAIR because you can't using
select ... INTO variable inside the execute, but instead need to use
something like for in execute loop.