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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:29:18 +0100
From: Andrea Visinoni <a.visinoni@autron.it>
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Subject: plpgsql loop question

hi,
i have a table called "zones": idzone, zone_name
and several tables called zonename_records (same structure), where 
zonename is one of the zone_name in the "zones" table.
What i want to do is a function that union all of this tables 
dinamically based on "zones" table, this is what i've done so far:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_all_records()
   RETURNS SETOF record AS
$BODY$DECLARE
zones record;
recs record;
BEGIN
for zones in select lower(zone_name) as n from zones loop
	for recs in select * from quote_ident(zones.n || '_records') loop
		return next recs;
	end loop;
end loop;
RETURN;
END;
$BODY$
   LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE
   COST 100;

but i get this error!

ERROR:  wrong record type supplied in RETURN NEXT
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "get_all_records" line 9 at RETURN NEXT

Andrea