Re: Query on a record variable

On 08/18/2013 01:14 PM, Janek Sendrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I do a query on a record variable in a function.
> I want to do a dirty fulltextsearch on a table and then choose the string which have a low levenshtein-distance.
> I wanted to it like this, but it doesn't work:
>
> v_query := 'SELECT col FROM table WHERE LENGTH(dede) BETWEEN x AND y AND plainto_tsquery(string') @@ vectors';
> EXECUTE v_query INTO v_rec;
> v_query := 'SELECT levenshtein('string', v_rec.col) AS lev WHERE levenshtein('string', v_rec.col) < 10';
> EXECUTE v_query INTO v_rec2;
>
> Or is there an easier way to do that. Maybe just to do one query at once?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

You can't drop the v_rec variable directly into the string. You will
need to concatenate it in. For more info see:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

>
> Hope someone can help me.
>
> Janek Sendrowski
>
>

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