Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
According to the PostgreSQL help file EXECUTE is used to execute a prepared statement. I tried that but when I call PREPARE with COPY as the statement I get an error. Are you saying that I can also use EXECUTE asOn 27/11/2008 20:52, Bill Todd wrote:Substituting the input parameter for the literal path does not work and neither does using PREPARE/EXECUTE. How can I pass the file path as a parameter?You could write a pl/pgsql function which constructs the query as a string and then runs it with EXECUTE. Ray. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@xxxxxx Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals ------------------------------------------------------------------ EXECUTE AStringVariable; where AStringVariable contains a valid SQL statement? If so, that is the solution. Bill |