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From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Roy Blum <blumroy@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Use a TEXT string which is an output from a function for executing a new query in postgres
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 08:08:00 +0800
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On 01/08/2015 02:12 AM, Roy Blum wrote:
> I have created a function *myresult()* that receives as input Table
> name, and a Prefix, it then creates an SQL one liner command to SELECT
> from the specified table only the columns that share the designated
> prefix. It output a string which is basically the desired SQL command.
> My function is as follows and I show how I call it as well: 

This is reposted from Stack Overflow, where it has already been pretty
comprehensively answered.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/27808534/398670

http://stackoverflow.com/q/27824725/398670

As suggested earlier - return a refcursor.

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