a plpgsql programming question

Well,

If you use the PHP,
$sql_statement = " SELECT ... ";
$array_result = pgexec(connecttion, $sql_statement);
$i = pg_numrows($array_result)
for ($j=0; $j<$i;$j++)
echo $array_result[i];

Hope this helps ... :)

"Jefim Matskin" <mjefim@sphera.com> wrote in message
news:11EB6F74CACFD21199370050DAB8AA12A35F46@EXCHSPHERA...

I have the following problem;
The client of the DB issues a lot of the SQL commands over a network , the
statements are of the simple form - select an integer from some table(s)
using some criteria.
I want to create a function that will accept the string containing all the
statements to be executed, a string containing the length of the

statements

to be executed and will return the string containing all the integer

values

retrieved.

And the questions are:
1. How to execute a sql statement that is contained in the text variable

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