Re: Weird EXECUTE ... USING behaviour

2010/1/12 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it> writes:
>> In a PL/PgSQL function I have the following:
>> ----
>>             execute $l2$
>>               alter table $l2$||ct||$l2$ add check(
>> data>=$1::timestamp and data<$2::timestamp and maga=$3 )
>>             $l2$ using rec.d0,rec.d1,rec.maga;
>> ----
>> which yields to this error messsge:
>> ERROR:  there is no parameter $1
>
> You can't use a parameter of the function in a CHECK constraint on a
> table.  The CHECK constraint is permanent and can't refer to transient
> state like that.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

Tom, $1, $2 and $3 should be the substitution arguments from the USING
predicate, not the function argument list, which in my case is an
empty list!
And the EXECUTE shoud implement a static binding with the "variables"
from the USING predicate ...

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Vincenzo Romano
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