> You need to use the FOR-IN-EXECUTE style of query. That way > you can use any string you want (including text passed in as > a parameter) to build the query inside the function ...
that is what i want to avoid. (i wrote that in my first mail) My question was about why it is not possible to do it like this: ....ORDER BY $1 I don't know if it is standards-conform or if someone considers it a usefull feature, but i think it would help users to write capsulated statistics-functions or simply browsable and orderable lists. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
