Question

I have this function:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION CREATE_AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY_RECORD
 (cur_user VARCHAR, start_time VARCHAR, start_date VARCHAR, end_time VARCHAR, end_date VARCHAR, airspace_name VARCHAR)

  RETURNS VOID AS '
  DECLARE
 c_user ALIAS for $1;
BEGIN
   IF start_time IS NULL OR
      start_date IS NULL OR
      end_time IS NULL OR
      end_date IS NULL  THEN
         INSERT INTO c_user.AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY
            (ASP_AIRSPACE_NM, ASA_TIME_ID, ASA_START_DT, ASA_END_DT)
         SELECT airspace_name,
                 1,
                 ABP.ABP_START_DT,
                 ABP.ABP_STOP_DT
           FROM ABP 
          WHERE EXISTS
             (SELECT ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM
                FROM AIRSPACE ASP
               WHERE ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM = airspace_name);
   ELSIF start_time IS NOT NULL AND
      start_date IS NOT NULL AND
      end_time IS NOT NULL AND
      end_date IS NOT NULL  THEN
         INSERT INTO c_user.AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY
            (ASP_AIRSPACE_NM, ASA_TIME_ID, ASA_START_DT, ASA_END_DT)
         SELECT airspace_name,
                 1,
                 TO_DATE(start_date||start_time,''YYMMDDHH24MI''),
                 TO_DATE(end_date||end_time,''YYMMDDHH24MI'')
           FROM DUAL
          WHERE EXISTS
             (SELECT ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM
                FROM c_user.AIRSPACE ASP
               WHERE ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM = airspace_name);
   END IF;

END ;
   ' LANGUAGE plpgsql;

I try calling it like so:

select * from CREATE_AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY_RECORD('user1','','','','','');

and I get this error:

ERROR: schema "c_user" does not exist
SQL state: 3F000
Context: SQL statement "INSERT INTO c_user.AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY (ASP_AIRSPACE_NM, ASA_TIME_ID, ASA_START_DT, ASA_END_DT) SELECT  $1 , 1, TO_DATE( $2 || $3 ,'YYMMDDHH24MI'), TO_DATE( $4 || $5 ,'YYMMDDHH24MI') FROM DUAL WHERE EXISTS (SELECT ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM FROM c_user.AIRSPACE ASP WHERE ASP.ASP_AIRSPACE_NM =  $1 )"
PL/pgSQL function "create_airspace_availability_record" line 23 at SQL statement

Why isn’t c_user being replaced with my param (user1)?

Answer 1

When you write something like this:

INSERT INTO c_user.AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY

the database assumes that the ‘c_user’ is a namespace, not a variable. If you want to use the value of the c_user variable in such a query, you should use execute statement:

execute 'INSERT INTO ' || c_user || '.AIRSPACE_AVAILABILITY';