2010/1/14 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/1/14 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 2010/1/14 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 10:19:57 pm Vincenzo Romano wrote: ... >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f() >> RETURNS VOID >> LANGUAGE plpgsql >> AS $function$ >> DECLARE >> cmd TEXT; >> BEGIN >> EXECUTE ' >> SELECT $l0$ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN i SET DEFAULT $1 $l0$ >> ' INTO cmd USING 42; >> RAISE INFO '%',cmd; >> END; >> $function$ >> >> SELECT f(); >> INFO: ALTER TABLE test ALTER COLUMN i SET DEFAULT $1 >> >> The command to be executed is DML (SELECT). The substitution doesn't take place. > > yes. You cannot call SELECT 'ALTER ...' SELECT 'ALTER ...' is to select a text string into a variable! You mean the parse will give a look into my constant string to see whether I'm trying to build a dynamic DDL command? This would be awesome! -- Vincenzo Romano NotOrAnd Information Technologies NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general