Re: help with dynamic table name

"Jasbinder Singh Bali" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 3/5/07, Peter Schonefeld <peter(dot)schonefeld(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> sql := "INSERT INTO "+ $3 +" ('id','body') VALUES ("+ $1 +","+ $2 +")";
>>
>> I get the error: "ERROR: 42703: column \"INSERT INTO \" does not exist"

> try replacing double quotes with single quotes and you should be fine i
> think

Actually, I think Peter's got the double and single quotes exactly
backwards. You can't just randomly use one or the other: single quotes
surround literal strings, double quotes surround identifiers (and are
only really needed if the identifier wouldn't be syntactically an
identifier without them). So Peter could write

sql := 'INSERT INTO '+ $3 +' ("id","body") VALUES ('+ $1 +','+ $2 +')';

but in this particular case there's no point in double-quoting those
target-column names; it'd be the same to write

sql := 'INSERT INTO '+ $3 +' (id,body) VALUES ('+ $1 +','+ $2 +')';

regards, tom lane