Re: Combining metavariables and table names

On December 28, 2025 8:53:50 PM EST, "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>On Sunday, December 28, 2025, H <agents(at)meddatainc(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a feeling I might be missing how to use the combination of a
>> metavariable and a table name when used in an argument to a
>procedure.
>
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>No, what you are doing is impossible if you limit yourself to direct
>SQL
>command syntax writing.
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>> Even though I gotten it to work, what would the correct usage be?
>>
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>I’d probably do something like:
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>versioning(…, format(‘%I.%I’, :’s’, ‘test_history’), …)
>
>David J.

Just tried your suggestion to use format() but it resulted in a 'syntax error at or near "("'

Seems I am stuck using the approach I found to work, ie. generating a string constant in another meta variable.