2014-09-01 16:41 GMT+02:00 Joel Jacobson <j...@trustly.com>:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, the idiom:
> >
> > EXECUTE format("SELECT %I FROM %I WHERE $1", col, tbl) USING val;
> >
> > is not lovely. It works, but it's clumsy.
>
> This is exactly why we need a new language.
> All the clumsy stuff we cannot fix in plpgsql, can easily be fixed in
> plpgsql2, with the most beautiful syntax we can come up with.
>
> I guess it's a question if we want to support things like this. If we
> want to, then we also want a new language.
>
when you fix it, then you designed totally new language with thin relation
to plpgsql
Pavel
