Hello Adrian,
Thank you for your response. Sorry about the typos in the previous post.
I will try to explain myself more clearly.
This is my first function to create a dynamic query and it is as follows:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dynamic_crosstab(
source_sql text,
category_sql text,
v_matrix_col_type text,
v_matrix_rows_name_and_type text,
debug boolean DEFAULT false)
RETURNS text AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
v_sql text;
curs1 refcursor;
v_val text;
BEGIN
v_sql = v_matrix_rows_name_and_type;
OPEN curs1 FOR execute category_sql;
Loop
FETCH curs1 INTO v_val;
exit when v_val IS NULL;
v_sql = v_sql ||' , "'||v_val||'" '||v_matrix_col_type;
IF debug THEN
RAISE NOTICE 'v_val = %',v_val;
END IF;
END LOOP;
CLOSE curs1;
v_sql := 'SELECT * from crosstab(' || chr(10) || E' \''||source_sql || E'\','||chr(10) || E' \''||category_sql || E'\'' || chr(10)|| ' ) AS (' || v_sql ||')';
IF debug THEN
RAISE NOTICE 'v_sql = %',v_sql;
END IF;
RETURN v_sql;
END;
This works fine. It accepts 2 sql queries and other parameters as inputs and output is a sql query which looks like this:
SELECT * from crosstab( sql query 1, sql query 2) AS (....);
and this query works fine too.
I want to execute and return rows from this query. Hence I am using another function to accomplish, which is :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION leavetypeaccrual(
cur refcursor,
text,
text,
text)
RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS
$BODY$
declare
val_1 text;
begin
select * from dynamic_crosstab( 'select
p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description, sum(p.hours_allocated) as hours_allocated
from
preference_type pt, preference p, preference_date_etl pde, date_etl de
where
pt.id = p.preference_type_id and
pde.preference_id = p.id and
pde.corporation_id = $4 and
de.id = pde.date_etl_id and
pde.deleted = ''''N'''' and
p.deleted = ''''N'''' and
pt.deleted = ''''N'''' and
de.local_date between ''''$2'''' and ''''$3'''' and
p.employee_id IN (
select id from employee where user_id IN ( select id from app_user where corporation_id =$4))
group by p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description ',
' select distinct description from preference_type where deleted =''''N'''' and corporation_id=' || $4,
'text','location_id int , employee_id int',false) into val_1;
open cur for execute val_1;
return next cur;
end;
Now the first input parameter for my select * from dynamic_crosstab(...) is treated as a string input , but the second input parameter (' select distinct description from preference_type.....) is treated as a seperate sql query instead of string because of the ''''N''''. I need to use deleted='''''N'''' the same way I have used in first input parameter. Please advice how I can achieve this.
Error Message:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "N"
LINE 1: ...description from preference_type where deleted =''N'' and co...
^
QUERY: select distinct description from preference_type where deleted =''N'' and corporation_id=43340
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function dynamic_crosstab(text,text,text,text,boolean) line 8 at OPEN
SQL statement "select * from dynamic_crosstab(' select
p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description, sum(p.hours_allocated) as hours_allocated
from
preference_type pt, preference p, preference_date_etl pde, date_etl de
where
pt.id = p.preference_type_id and
pde.preference_id = p.id and
pde.corporation_id = $4 and
de.id = pde.date_etl_id and
pde.deleted = ''''N'''' and
p.deleted = ''''N'''' and
pt.deleted = ''''N'''' and
de.local_date between ''''$2'''' and ''''$3'''' and
p.employee_id IN (
select id from employee where user_id IN ( select id from app_user where corporation_id =$4))
group by p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description ',
' select distinct description from preference_type where deleted =''''N'''' and corporation_id=' || $4,
'text','location_id int , employee_id int',false)"
PL/pgSQL function leavetypeaccrual(refcursor,text,text,text) line 5 at SQL statement
Thanks
Yash.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/11/2016 11:47 PM, Yash Gajbhiye wrote:
I am using postgres crosstab() function to create a table.
My first dynamic query function (dynamic_crosstab) creates a sql select
statement containing crosstab(), and then this select statement gives
the final result on execution. /*dynamic_crosstab functions works
perfectly*/
I need to execute this select query (result of dynamic_crosstab
function) by using parameters, so I am again using a function as follows.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION leavetypeaccrual(
cur refcursor,
text,
text,
text)
RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS
$BODY$
declare
val_1 text;
begin
select * from dynamic_crosstab($ select
p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description, sum(p.hours_allocated) as
hours_allocated
I am having a hard figuring out what the above is supposed to be doing, in particular this?:
$ select
p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description, sum(p.hours_allocated) as hours_allocated ...
Why the leading $?
Would it be possible to cut and paste the errors in the future, I had to enlarge the images to get these old eyes to see the issue. At any rate from what I could see, it is a quoting issue, which I believe is related to the question above.
from
preference_type pt, preference p, preference_date_etl pde, date_etl de
where
pt.id <http://pt.id> = p.preference_type_id and
pde.preference_id = p.id <http://p.id> and
pde.corporation_id = $4 and
de.id <http://de.id> = pde.date_etl_id and
pde.deleted = ''N'' and
p.deleted = ''N'' and
pt.deleted = ''N'' and
de.local_date between ''$2'' and ''$3'' and
p.employee_id IN (
select id from employee where user_id IN ( select id from app_user where
corporation_id =||$4||))
group by p.location_id, p.employee_id, pt.description $,
$ select distinct description from preference_type where deleted =''N''
and corporation_id=$ || $4,
'text','location_id int , employee_id int',false) into val_1;
open cur for execute val_1;
return next cur;
end;
$BODY$
Now this function should execute the crosstab() function and it does
when I use deleted= 'N' in the second parameter but shows error because
crosstab() needs deleted=''N'' to execute.
Inline image 1
And I need to use deleted=''N'' to get my results but postgres treats my
second parameter as a individual query when I try to do it.
Inline image 2
The first parameter is passed perfectly with deleted =''N'' but
postgres does not recognize second parameter when deleted=''N''.
Please suggest what modifications I should do to make this work.
Thanks.
--
Yash Gajbhiye
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
