Re: PLpgSQL FOR IN EXECUTE question

On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:35 pm, Christoph Haller wrote:
> Consider the following PLpgSQL code fragment
>
> FOR this_record IN
> EXECUTE ''SELECT ''
>
>         || quote_ident($1)
>         || ''FROM ''
>         || quote_ident($2)
>
> LOOP
>     list := list || '', '' || this_record.$1 ;
> END LOOP;
>
> As expected, accessing a field via this_record.$1
> does not work.
> Can it be done otherwise?

Perhaps "SELECT ... AS known_name FROM ..." and then this_record.known_name?

--  Richard Huxton