thoroughly broken examples on the Dynamic SQL page

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/ecpg-dynamic.html
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Has anyone tried the examples on the
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/ecpg-dynamic.html Dynamic SQL page? The
very first line in each example immediately throws a syntax error: "syntax
error at or near "exec"". Could we get this updated or a bug fixed? I'm
migrating from SQL Server and really need to know how to migrate dynamic SQL
in existing code.

#2Laurenz Albe
laurenz.albe@cybertec.at
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: thoroughly broken examples on the Dynamic SQL page

On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 15:52 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

Has anyone tried the examples on the
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/ecpg-dynamic.html Dynamic SQL page? The
very first line in each example immediately throws a syntax error: "syntax
error at or near "exec"". Could we get this updated or a bug fixed? I'm
migrating from SQL Server and really need to know how to migrate dynamic SQL
in existing code.

You are confused.
This page is about embedded SQL in C.

If you want to write a stored procedure or function that uses dynamic SQL,
read https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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