Re: Selecting from a dynamic name

You could try writing another function to do the select, and construct the
query using string manipulation...

Chris
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[mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Jason Kwok
Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 10:43 AM
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [SQL] Selecting from a dynamic name

I have asked this question before, but still I'm stuck.
How can I select from a table with a name that's returned by a function?

eg : I have a function named tablename() which return 'mytable'
If I already have a table called mytable, can I :

select * from tablename();

pgadmin2 returns an error :
ERROR : parser : parse error at or near "("

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Jason Kwok
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