Re: Passing a table as parameter

On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Jon Smark wrote:

>
> Is there any way for a SQL or PL/pgSQL function to receive a table
> as parameter? As an illustration, consider the dummy example below.
> Note that functions get_from_data1 and get_from_data2 follow essentially
> the same pattern; it would be nice to define instead a single polymorphic
> function parameterised on the id and table. Is this possible?

Try Something like given below:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tab_pass(text) returns setof numeric
as
$$
DECLARE
rec record;
BEGIN
for rec in execute 'select empno from '||$1||' where id = 1'
LOOP
return next rec.empno;
END LOOP;
return next rec.empno;
END;
$$ language plpgsql;

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