Re: EXECUTE of a 'create table' string is not happening

["David Johnston" <polobo@xxxxxxxxx>]

A little lost but the first thing that stands out is that you are attempting to create an actual table instead of a temporary table.  Not sure if that difference is meaningful to the function but procedurally is there a reason to create the permanent table instead of a temporary one?

 

If you do need a permanent table would you be able to generate the data as part of routine maintenance and/or via triggers instead of building out the entire (or portion) of the table each time?

 

I do not think you have provided enough code to get good feedback.  The entire function would probably help – though maybe a simplified version but one that still exhibits the behavior in question.

 

You also do not provide the minor release level which may be relevant.

 

David J.

 

From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ralph Smith
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:05 PM
To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: EXECUTE of a 'create table' string is not happening

 

Hi,

I'm passing a tablename and two columnnames into a function so that I can SELECT Records in a FOR LOOP using 'fixed' field names.
Using the passed params I construct the create table command and then alter the names of two columns.

When I 'build' the function and then run my query to use the function w/ a different offset it works the first time.
The first time ONLY.  But actually it doesn't work, it just doesn't error the first run.
Subsequent runs tell me that relation ######## doesn't exist, at the FOR...LOOP line, after ALTERing the table.

I build the string and it's good:
CREATE TABLE temp_gentokenstable AS SELECT businessid, publicname FROM businesscontact ORDER BY businessid OFFSET 200000 LIMIT 10000 ;

I'm forced to use v7.4.

If this is a known error, can I (with the version  ; ^)  ) get around it?

Ultimately I need to FOR..LOOP through through records and the table and cols will change.  Any suggestions???

THANKS!

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Ralph

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