Re: patch: plpgsql - access records with rec.(expr)

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Matt <matt(at)kynx(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: plpgsql - access records with rec.(expr)
Date: 2004-11-22 23:21:40
Message-ID: 1101165700.12361.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm confused. How/why is this different from EXECUTE?

EVALUATE would take a string and evaluate it as a PL/PgSQL statement;
EXECUTE takes a string and executes it as a SQL statement. We've
discussed this before (although I may not have called it "EVALUATE" at
the time):

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-10/msg00005.php

-Neil

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