| From: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types |
| Date: | 2009-09-13 21:47:49 |
| Message-ID: | 4FA3B845-AD54-41EE-9FDF-473BB1D9BFB5@decibel.org |
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On Sep 12, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> decibel wrote:
>> Speaking of concatenation...
>>
>> Something I find sorely missing in plpgsql is the ability to put
>> variables inside of a string, ie:
>>
>> DECLARE
>> v_table text := ...
>> v_sql text;
>> BEGIN
>> v_sql := "SELECT * FROM $v_table";
>>
>> Of course, I'm assuming that if it was easy to do that it would be
>> done already... but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
>>
>
> Then use a language that supports variable interpolation in
> strings, like plperl, plpythonu, plruby .... instead of plpgsql.
Which makes executing SQL much, much harder.
At least if we get sprintf dealing with strings might become a bit
easier...
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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