Re: PGPLSql Select Into problem.

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:48:49AM +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am  Fri, dem 08.06.2007, um  9:46:14 -0700 mailte Gary Townsend folgendes:
> >             GeomFromText(
> >             ''POINT('' || stopeasting || '' '' stopnorthing || '')'',
> > projection
>
> If you want to call dynamicaly created sql-statements you need to use
> EXECUTE.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

This isn't a dynamic SQL statement.  POINT isn't a function; it's
part of the text representation of a geometry object that PostGIS
uses.  The error here is a missing || operator before stopnorthing.
The string concatenation could also be replaced with a call to
makepoint().

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Michael Fuhr