Re: FOR-IN-EXECUTE, why fail?

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)pgsql-sql"(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FOR-IN-EXECUTE, why fail?
Date: 2004-07-17 09:49:08
Message-ID: cdasmt$lk4$2@floppy.pyrenet.fr
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Marcos Medina wrote:

> I wrote the following:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION escritorio.seq_valor_actual( text)
> RETURNS integer AS '
> DECLARE
> secuencia ALIAS FOR $1;
> valor_actual integer := 0;
> v_query text;
> actual integer;
> BEGIN
> RAISE NOTICE ''el parametro tiene el siguiente valor %'' ,secuencia;
>
> v_query := ''SELECT last_value FROM '' || quote_ident(secuencia);
> RAISE NOTICE ''la sentencia a ejecutar es %'' ,v_query;
>
> FOR actual IN EXECUTE v_query LOOP
> valor_actual := actual;
> END LOOP;
>
> RETURN valor_actual;
>
> END;
> 'LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> And i call:
> select seq_valor_actual('s_id_reserva');
>
>
> The s_id_reserva is a sequence. The error is the following:
> WARNING: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of seq_valor_actual near line 12
> ERROR: missing .. at end of SQL expression
>
> I think the problem is in the FOR but i see correct all.
>
> Can i help me?
>
> Any idea?

You shall declare actual as RECORD and perform inside the loop:

valor_actual = actual.last_value;

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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