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From: "un_spoken" <brucedickinson@...>

> regarding option b)
>
> > b) if there's more to it, dynamically build up the EXECUTE BLOCK as you did
> > above, then execute the whole thing as a statement (keeping in mind that you
> > need to build up a statement that looks like:
> >
> > execute block (parameter names and types...) returns (column names and
> > types...) as
> > begin
> > for select ... into ... do suspend;
> > end
>
> When I dynamically build the EXECUTE BLOCK it will have different
> columns number for each execution. Because of that I will be not
> possible to execute it as a statement since when I am executing it as
> a statement I would also have to define the returning columns, right?

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You can (and must) dynamically create the returns() clause, to match. Your
"template" would therefore look like:

execute block returns ( /*dynamically-built*/ ) as
begin
for select /*dynamically-built*/ into /*dynamically-built*/ do suspend;
end

Does that explain it?

-Philip