Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D540DB5DC1B for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:31:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12907-02 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:31:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A0CB5DBDA for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:31:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2Juc-0006jR-Ip for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:31:46 +0200 Received: from ip-118-90-62-12.xdsl.xnet.co.nz ([118.90.62.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:31:46 +0200 Received: from jasen by ip-118-90-62-12.xdsl.xnet.co.nz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:31:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org From: Jasen Betts Subject: Re: Dynamic sql Date: 10 Sep 2011 09:18:41 GMT Organization: Dis (not Dat) Organisation Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-118-90-62-12.xdsl.xnet.co.nz X-Face: ?)Aw4rXwN5u0~$nqKj`xPz>xHCwgi^q+^?Ri*+R(&uv2=E1Q0Zk(>h!~o2ID@6{uf8s; a +M[5[U[QT7xFN%^gR"=tuJw%TXXR'Fp~W; (T"1(739R%m0Yyyv*gkGoPA.$b,D.w:z+<'"=-lVT?6 {T?=R^:W5g|E2#EhjKCa+nt":4b}dU7GYB*HBxn&Td$@f%.kl^:7X8rQWd[NTc"P"u6nkisze/Q; 8 "9Z{peQF,w)7UjV$c|RO/mQW/NMgWfr5*$-Z%u46"/00mx-,\R'fLPe.)^ User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.404 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/18 X-Sequence-Number: 35818 On 2011-09-10, Gabriel Filipiak wrote: > --bcaec517adbceea3c804ac90a376 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, this is my first on this list. > > I want to know the basics of dynamic sql especially in PostgreSQL. I was > googling for a while but have no luck for getting a good described examples. > Maybe someone here could give me some links to the materials from which you > where studying this subject. Usually I go to the manual first. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN some things to consider: use quote_identifier and quote_literal when passing names and values into the sql statements: you can't pass variables in, only their values. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural