Thanks Craig, this one worked! Balazs -----Original Message----- From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:34 AM To: Keresztury Balázs Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: create role in a pl/pgsql trigger On 27/01/2010 1:09 AM, Keresztury Balázs wrote: > hi, > > I would like to write a trigger on a table which contains detailed > information about users. If I add a new user to this table, I'd like this > trigger to add the user to the database as well. Later I also want to > implement triggers for updating and deleting, but I got stuck at the first > part of this task. > > Everything went fine until the point I had to insert the username into the > create role command. Appearently the command takes only parameters without > the ' signs, and the language supports only substituting parameters with the > apostrophe. > > Any idea? Use 'EXECUTE' (without "USING" because "EXECUTE ... USING" doesn't work for utility statements). -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general