Re: [SQL] CREATE TABLE AS inside of a function

[Rodrigo De Leon]

On 7/21/06, Kevin Nikiforuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

So now that I've got my loops working, on to my next newbie question.  I've 
created my function and in it, I want to loop through the results of a select 
and for each value of my loop counter, I want to create a new table, but I 
can't figure out how to use a variable in the name of the new table, see below.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rgio() RETURNS INTEGER as $$
DECLARE
        lv RECORD;

BEGIN
        FOR lv IN SELECT DISTINCT rg FROM ldevrg LOOP
                CREATE TABLE rgio_$lv AS
                        SELECT ldev
                        FROM ldevrg
                        WHERE rg='$lv';
        END LOOP;
RETURN 1;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Thanks,
Kevin

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Regards,

Rodrigo

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