On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:06:18PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > As far as I can tell from my PL/SQL guide to Oracle8, PL/SQL does not permit > exectution of strings-as-queries at all. So there's no equivalent in PL/SQL.
I'm not an Oracle bunny but they seem to have something vaguely similar to what we do; they call it "EXECUTE IMMEDIATE" and the concept is described as "Dynamic SQL". http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/appdev.817/a77069/10_dynam.htm#4376 Richard ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html