On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Well, the idiom: > > EXECUTE format("SELECT %I FROM %I WHERE $1", col, tbl) USING val; > > is not lovely. It works, but it's clumsy.
This is exactly why we need a new language. All the clumsy stuff we cannot fix in plpgsql, can easily be fixed in plpgsql2, with the most beautiful syntax we can come up with.
I guess it's a question if we want to support things like this. If we want to, then we also want a new language.
when you fix it, then you designed totally new language with thin relation to plpgsql