Re: PL/pgSQL 2

On 09/01/2014 10:17 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Imo this is still something that's more dynamic SQL (i.e. EXECUTE's
> remit) than something that shouldn't be doable implicitly. So perhaps
> the solution is to extend EXECUTE to allow specifying tablenames as
> variables more conveniently?

With format(...) it's pretty easy, really.

Perhaps just changing the docs to remove all the quote_ident based
examples in favour of format(...) would be enough.

Pavel's points are pretty good - what exists now isn't ideal from a
usability and friendliness PoV, but changing it would require making a
big mess elsewhere that's not worth doing.

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