Re: CREATE TABLE AS inside of a function

On 7/21/06, Kevin Nikiforuk <Kevin(dot)Nikiforuk(at)acrodex(dot)com> wrote:
> So now that I've got my loops working, on to my next newbie question. I've created my function and in it, I want to loop through the results of a select and for each value of my loop counter, I want to create a new table, but I can't figure out how to use a variable in the name of the new table, see below.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rgio() RETURNS INTEGER as $$
> DECLARE
> lv RECORD;
>
> BEGIN
> FOR lv IN SELECT DISTINCT rg FROM ldevrg LOOP
> CREATE TABLE rgio_$lv AS
> SELECT ldev
> FROM ldevrg
> WHERE rg='$lv';
> END LOOP;
> RETURN 1;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Regards,

Rodrigo