On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:35:09PM +0200, Andy Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to setup a simple "generic" type trigger. What a mean by generic > is that i don't want to hardcode the > NEW.<column> or OLD.<column> calls, i searched for a way to loop over > the NEW/OLD rowtypes but could not figure out how it should be done.
You're trying to do something that pl/pgsql it notoriously bad at. I suggest you use some more dynamic language like perl/python/etc. > The above code does nothing useful and is only to test out the concept. The > problem comes from NEW.colnames[i] because the NEW rowtype does not have a > column called colnames. Can anyone tell me how to append the value of > colnames[i] to NEW so it would work, or is it even possible to iterate of > the NEW/OLD rowtype without having to know the column names ? Not in pl/pgsql (being statically typed). In some other languages you can. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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