Re: Dynamic SQL

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:18:38 +0100, Mark Battersby wrote:

> When looking at PostGres through the eyes of an Oracle Developer I was
> wondering if PostGres supports a feature called Dynamic SQL. Of course even
> better would be the ability to run PostGress/PL dynamically too.

PostgreSQL does not conform to the "Basic dynamic SQL" feature of the SQL
standard (feature ID B031). However, PostgreSQL supports some of the
involved concepts, like prepared statements. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/ecpg.html and in particular
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/ecpg-dynamic.html

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