On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 12:11 +0200, Brice André wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I would want to implement an SQL query where I would be able to suppress all > information from a registered user. I am currenlty able to suppress > everything except the user role. The name of the role is present in a table > and so, I would want to perform something like this : > DROP ROLE (SELECT ...) > but this is not considered as valid, as DROP ROLE is expecting a name and > not a text field. So, I tried the following, but with no success : > DROP ROLE CAST((SELECT...) AS name) > > So, does someone knows how to handle this problem ? >
You can't do it with only one query. You need to use two queries: the SELECT, and then the DROP. -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
