-----Original Message----- From: Raymond O'Donnell
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 10:38 AM
To: Bob Pawley
Cc: Bill Moran ; Postgresql
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

On 02/09/2011 18:33, Bob Pawley wrote:


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 8:19 AM
To: Bob Pawley
Cc: Postgresql
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpgsql-statements.html
Section 39.5.4

If you're not familiar with plpgsql at all, you might want to start with
this:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpgsql-structure.html


Thanks for the suggestion.

Following is my interpretation of what I have read.

I am getting an error  -- "column "1" does not exist"

Could someone point to what I am doing wrong?

Bob

 Select 2 into point_array ;
   Select "1" into column ;

Hi Bob,

I think it is the double-quotes around the 1; just leave them out to get
a literal integer 1:

 select 1 into column;

If I understand correctly, the double-quotes make Postgres look for a
column named "1".

Ray.

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Ray
I've named columns 1 through 10 so that it will be easy to determine the next column in the loop.
When I use the following it works well.

Update library.compare
Set "1"[2] =
(select st_distance (st.............................

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