Re: Pass in variable from user???

am  13.05.2006, um 14:15:52 -0700 mailte syohonn@gmail.com folgendes:
> Using PL/PGSQL, I am trying to create a procedure to display the count
> of rows in any single table of a database. The End-user would pass in a
> table name and the prodecure would display the table name with the row
> count.
> I am able to hardcode the variable for table and get the appropriate
> results from my count function (see below), but cannot pass in a
> variable and have the function work. Any suggesstions???
> 
> CREATE FUNCTION get_table_count(tablename text) RETURNS integer AS $$
>   DECLARE
> 
>     --tablename ALIAS FOR $1;
> 
>      rowcount INTEGER;
>   BEGIN
> 
>     SELECT INTO rowcount count(*) FROM tablename;

You can't do SL direct with such parameters, but you can use
EXECUTE. Please read:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN


HTH, Andreas
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