Re: Learning Plpgsql ??

Good Idea and it worked, had to play with quotes a bit, duh,
Note: the use of quote_literal for seq's and quote_ident for table and
column objects.

CREATE or REPLACE FUNCTION up_seq() RETURNS text AS '
DECLARE
row RECORD; qrystr TEXT;
BEGIN
-- select sequence information from seq table
[ sequence_name, table_name, pk_column]
FOR row IN SELECT * FROM swim_seq_temp LOOP

qrystr :=
''SELECT setval(''
|| quote_literal(row.sequence_name)
|| '', ( SELECT max(''
|| quote_ident(row.pk_column)
|| '') FROM ''
|| quote_ident(row.table_name)
|| ''))'';
EXECUTE qrystr;

END LOOP;
RETURN ''done'';
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

Jim Beckstrom wrote:

> Coming from another newbie, here's what I use to set the sequence
> following an import of text data. I create seqence and table and
> import one file at a time, for a one time conversion, so I don't need
> the table of table names,etc., but that's a great idea, like a data
> dictionary concept. Would this work, modified to fit your loop syntax?
>
> select SETVAL('link_rep_link_rep_id_seq', (select max(link_rep_id)
> from link_rep))
>
> Jim
>
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