I want to pass a table name as a parameter in a Postgres function. I tried this code:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION some_f(param character varying) RETURNS integer
AS $$
BEGIN
IF EXISTS (select * from quote_ident($1) where quote_ident($1).id=1) THEN
return 1;
END IF;
return 0;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
select some_f('table_name');
And I got this:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "."
LINE 4: ...elect * from quote_ident($1) where quote_ident($1).id=1)...
^
********** Error **********
ERROR: syntax error at or near "."
And here is the error I got when changed to this select * from quote_ident($1) tab where tab.id=1
:
ERROR: column tab.id does not exist
LINE 1: ...T EXISTS (select * from quote_ident($1) tab where tab.id...
Probably, quote_ident($1)
works, because without the where quote_ident($1).id=1
part I get 1
, which means something is selected. Why may the first quote_ident($1)
work and the second one not at the same time? And how could this be solved?