On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Pierre Racine wrote: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ST_MyGeneralFunction(callback text) > RETURNS SETOF geomval AS $$ > DECLARE > x integer; > y integer; > BEGIN > y := somecalculation; > x := 'callback'(y); --This is what I need > RETURN x; > END; > $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; > > I don't want to do an EXECUTE statement since I have no table to put after the FROM clause. I want to assign the resulting value directly to a variable like in my example. You don't need any table to assign value of function to Variable, if function returning single value. You can use EXECUTE 'SELECT '||$1||'(y)' into x; Thanks & Regards, Vibhor Kumar EnterpriseDB Corporation The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company vibhor.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
