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Re: How to ensure column names are double quoted while using execute format when building a stored procedure?

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When I used SQL identifier, it stopped working.  The command line gets interpreted as following:

insert into stats select "1" as id, 'count of nulls in "UNIQUE_REFERENCE_NUMBER"' as checks, count("""UNIQUE_REFERENCE_NUMBER""") from points_of_interest."pointx_v2_National_Coverage_Sep21" where """UNIQUE_REFERENCE_NUMBER""" is null

I used select count("UNIQUE_REFERENCE_NUMBER") from a_table where "UNIQUE_REFERENCE_NUMBER" is null in SQL.

It always worked.

This can not be replicated in Execute Format.

Regards,

David

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 20:24, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 1:21 PM Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The following command runs but does not produce results as expected.
 
Execute Format('insert into stats select %L as id, %2$L as checks, count(%3$s) from %4$s where %5$s is null', i, 'count of nulls in '||col, col, t_name, col);

All columns have got capital letters in.  How to ensure that the columns are double-quote when they are fed in as variables.


Quoting the relevant doc section:


type (required)
The type of format conversion to use to produce the format specifier's output. The following types are supported:

s formats the argument value as a simple string. A null value is treated as an empty string.

I treats the argument value as an SQL identifier, double-quoting it if necessary. It is an error for the value to be null (equivalent to quote_ident).

L quotes the argument value as an SQL literal. A null value is displayed as the string NULL, without quotes (equivalent to quote_nullable).

David J.


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