Re: plpgsql ?

> CREATE FUNCTION autono (text,text) RETURNS text AS '
> DECLARE
> a1 ALIAS FOR $1;
> a2 ALIAS FOR $1;
> ret_val text;
> BEGIN
> select tna into ret_val from a1 where pamt_no=a2;
>
> RETURN ret_val;
> END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
>
>
> error run " select tna into ret_val from a1 where pamt_no=a2; "
You cannot give a table name as an argument. You should write different
SELECTs for different tables, like this:

if a1 = ''dummy1'' then select tna into ret_val from dummy1 where
pamt_no=a2; end if;

if a1 = ''dummy2'' then select tna into ret_val from dummy2 where
pamt_no=a2; end if;

...

And so on. Unfortunately... :-)

Zoltan