syntax error during function call

From: "Aycock, Jeff R(dot)" <JEFF(dot)R(dot)AYCOCK(at)saic(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: syntax error during function call
Date: 2010-01-27 15:40:17
Message-ID: 65151B9A7C8C9C4284ABC85F0336DE5003972CE6@0015-its-exmb11.us.saic.com
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Hello,

I have a function with three parameters that would populate a table in
one schema from another table of the same name in another schema. The
tables are dynamically selected at execution time.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION schema_1.getAllSnapShot(user_id text,
begin_dt date, end_dt date) RETURNS SETOF schema_1.snapshot_table AS

$BODY$

DECLARE

r schema_1.snapshot_table%rowtype;

BEGIN

FOR r IN SELECT * FROM schema_1.snapshot_table

LOOP

DECLARE whoami text := r;

BEGIN

EXECUTE 'SELECT *, $1, now() INTO schema_1.'||whoami||' FROM
schema_2.'||whoami||' where created_dt between $2 and $3;'

USING user_id, begin_dt, end_dt;

END;

RETURN NEXT r;

END LOOP;

RETURN;

END

$BODY$

LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' ;

The snapshot_table has only one column for the table name.

The function call would look like this:

SELECT * FROM schema_1.getAllSnapShot('xyz9','2009-01-01','2010-01-01');

However, I get this error:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "("

LINE 1: SELECT *, $1, now() INTO schema_1.(table_A) FROM
schema_2.(table_A) where created_dt between $2 and $3;

I tried different escape characters for the row variable (whoami) but
get the same error as above.

I also tried other approaches, including using "tabname::regclass" for
the table names but nothing seem to work.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

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