Re: create role in a pl/pgsql trigger

Thanks Craig, this one worked!

Balazs

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig@postnewspapers.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:34 AM
To: Keresztury Balázs
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] create role in a pl/pgsql trigger

On 27/01/2010 1:09 AM, Keresztury Balázs wrote:
> hi,
>
> I would like to write a trigger on a table which contains detailed
> information about users. If I add a new user to this table, I'd like this
> trigger to add the user to the database as well. Later I also want to
> implement triggers for updating and deleting, but I got stuck at the first
> part of this task.
>
> Everything went fine until the point I had to insert the username into the
> create role command. Appearently the command takes only parameters without
> the ' signs, and the language supports only substituting parameters with
the
> apostrophe.
>
> Any idea?

Use 'EXECUTE' (without "USING" because "EXECUTE ... USING" doesn't work
for utility statements).

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Craig Ringer