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From: Stuart Barbee <sfbarbee@yahoo.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: REPOST[GENERAL] Quoting for a Select Into - Please Help
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:17:12 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20040115031712.2855.qmail@web41511.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114224753.1013.qmail@web12107.mail.yahoo.com>

Alex,

  Postgres's "select into" does not work like oracle. 
The "select into" for postgresql creates another
table.  Try this;

select aliasvalue || trim(arrayval[i]) into
newtablename from currenttablename where 
 trim(searchfield) like '%' ||
 trim(searchvalue) || '%';

Stuart


--- A E <cooljoint@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Could someone help me with quoting this right?
>  
> select into aliasvalue ''|| trim(arrayval[i]) ||'' 
> from ''|| trim(realname) ||'' where ''||
> trim(searchfield) ||'' like ''''%''||
> trim(searchvalue) ||''%''''; 
>  
> The parser does not seem to want to put the value of
> the variables into the statement.
>  
> Alex
> 
> 


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