Re: tablename as attribute in pgplsql

On Fri, 23 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Beno�t Bournon wrote:

> It is not possible tu use a specific argument ? type table or tablename ?

Not for the table name in a direct statement like
select foo from variable;

> execute is not runnig


Define not running.


> Stephan Szabo a �crit:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
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