On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:40 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote:
> Hi. Suppose I have a database that contains a "meta table" that holds
> the names of other the tables in the database, keyed by human-readable
> but longish strings. I would like to write queries that first
> "compute" the names of some tables (i.e. by looking them up in "meta
> table"), and after that they execute subqueries using these computed
> table names. The following invalid SQL illustrates the kind of
You can create a PL/pgSQL function and use "EXECUTE".
Depending on how you want to use it, you may need to make it a set-
returning function (a.k.a. table function).
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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