Re: About EXECUTE in pl/pgsql

Thank you Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "jack" <datactrl@tpg.com.au>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] About EXECUTE in pl/pgsql 


> "jack" <datactrl@tpg.com.au> writes:
> > I do following in pl/pgsql. (st1 has been set to "LIKE 'abc%' ")
> 
> >  EXECUTE
> >   ''CREATE TEMP TABLE comuser AS '' ||
> >   ''SELECT * FROM comt_user1 WHERE username ''||St1||
> >   ''ORDER BY username;'';
> 
> > I've got "ERROR: EXECUTE ..SELECT INTO hasn't impletmented", How can??
> 
> Ooops :-(.  That check was intended to prevent SELECT ... INTO table
> from being used in EXECUTE, mainly because of the confusion factor
> (SELECT INTO in plpgsql doesn't mean what it means in SQL, but the
> SQL interpretation is what you'd get from EXECUTE).
> 
> However, the check wasn't intended to trigger on CREATE AS.
> 
> I've stuck a quick fix into the current sources.  Should be in 7.2.1.
> 
> regards, tom lane
> 
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