Re: [GENERAL] Constructing a SELECT statement in pl/pgsql

2007-05-16 Thread Richard Huxton
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I guess my question is how to replace the following... FOR searchresults IN SELECT * FROM my_view WHERE LOOP With something like this... FOR searchresults IN SELECT DISTINCT clientname FROM my_view WHERE LOOP Build the query as text and use EXECUTE (see manuals fo

[GENERAL] Constructing a SELECT statement in pl/pgsql

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a function that returns a set of records based on one of my views. The function takes two arguments of user_id and saved search name, looks up the search values from a table previously saved and performs a SELECT query on my view to return my set of records found. However, I don't want to SE