Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

decibel wrote:
>
>
> Speaking of concatenation...
>
> Something I find sorely missing in plpgsql is the ability to put 
> variables inside of a string, ie:
>
> DECLARE
> v_table text := ...
> v_sql text;
> BEGIN
> v_sql := "SELECT * FROM $v_table";
>
> Of course, I'm assuming that if it was easy to do that it would be 
> done already... but I thought I'd just throw it out there.
>

Then use a language that supports variable interpolation in strings, 
like plperl, plpythonu, plruby .... instead of plpgsql.

cheers

andrew