Question

I have the following plpgsql procedure;

DECLARE 
     _r record;
     point varchar[] := '{}';
     i int := 0;

BEGIN



FOR _r IN EXECUTE ' SELECT a.'|| quote_ident(column) || ' AS point,
       FROM ' || quote_ident (table) ||' AS a'
LOOP

       point[i] = _r;
       i = i+1;

END LOOP;

RETURN 'OK';
END;

Which its main objective is to traverse a table and store each value of the row in an array. I am still new to plpgsql. Can anyone point out is the error as it is giving me the following error;

Answer 1

This is the complete syntax (note that I renamed the parameter column to col_name as column is reserved word. The same goes for table)

create or replace function foo(col_name text, table_name text)
  returns text
as
$body$

DECLARE 
     _r record;
     point character varying[] := '{}';
     i int := 0;

BEGIN
    FOR _r IN EXECUTE 'SELECT a.'|| quote_ident(col_name) || ' AS pt, FROM ' || quote_ident (table_name) ||' AS a'
    loop
     point[i] = _r;
     i = i+1;
   END LOOP;

   RETURN 'OK';
END;
$body$
language plpgsql;

Although to be honest: I fail so see what you are trying to achieve here.