pass open cursor via USING in execute staement

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 22:57 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/plpgsql-statements.html

Should be documented if this statement is allowed or not (if not, maybe set
as desired feature :-) )

EXECUTE format('update %I set col1=$1, col2=now() WHERE current of $3',
tabname)
   USING myVal, myOpenCursor;

That is not supported. Parameters can only be used in a place where constants
(SQL literals) might appear, not instead of identifiers (names of tables, columns etc.)

I looked, and that is really not documented anywhere.
One of PREPARE or the extended query protocol might be good places.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Yes, I agree, but also in cursor page.
Talking about cursor I can't find example that shows how pass a bounded
cursor to a function or procedure (must be already open? must be declared
in some specific way?)

Il giorno gio 1 giu 2023 alle ore 16:23 Laurenz Albe <
laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> ha scritto:

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 22:57 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/plpgsql-statements.html

Should be documented if this statement is allowed or not (if not, maybe

set

as desired feature :-) )

EXECUTE format('update %I set col1=$1, col2=now() WHERE current of $3',
tabname)
USING myVal, myOpenCursor;

That is not supported. Parameters can only be used in a place where
constants
(SQL literals) might appear, not instead of identifiers (names of tables,
columns etc.)

I looked, and that is really not documented anywhere.
One of PREPARE or the extended query protocol might be good places.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:32 AM PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
wrote:

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Should be documented if this statement is allowed or not (if not, maybe set
as desired feature :-) )

EXECUTE format('update %I set col1=$1, col2=now() WHERE current of $3',
tabname)
USING myVal, myOpenCursor;

Well, you can handle this by naming the cursor specifically, based on the
table that should be updated.
Then using the name of myOpenCursor.

and you use a refcursor variable to pass them around.
You name them like this, before opening them:
cCursor := 'my_cursor_update_table3';

Now usually the name matches the incoming variable name. You are going
to have to play with this.
Later in your code, you can test the value of the cursor name by simply
doing:
RAISE NOTICE 'Cursor Name: %', cCursor;

So you can copy it to a variable, and compare it. Then determine the
table to apply the update to.

That's the best I can come up with...

Kirk Out!