Hello,
I'am a complete newbie to plpgsql, so if this information is explained
somewhere where I haven't looked, yet, please point me to the doc... (I
didn't find the answer in the PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide.)
I use PG 7.3.1.
I'm trying to retrieve a row count from several tables (40) and would like
to create a function that does this automatically for the 40 and displays
the results. So, I loop through the tables:
DECLARE
obj RECORD;
BEGIN
FOR obj IN SELECT relname AS name FROM pg_class
WHERE relkind IN ('r')
AND relname like '%_random' AND relname != 'tout_random'
LOOP
then I need to do the select count for each table in the lines of
SELECT count(t1.id) AS total FROM || obj.name || AS t1 JOIN tout_random
AS t2 ON t1.id=t2.id WHERE t2.ok=TRUE;
and return the result of each of these select counts.
Could someone indicate how to return the results of these queries ?
Am I right that in order to do this dynamic query, I have to use an
EXECUTE statement ? Can I return the results of an EXECUTE statement ?
Thanks,
Moritz
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