From: Brian Knox <laotse@aol.net>
To: George Weaver <georgew1@mts.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: "record" datatype - plpgsql
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:52:09 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305300851380.13440@tao.office.aol.com> (raw)
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<005001c32624$0f0f3980$0100007f@cleartag>
That's not what I was asking. I know I can access the values of each
column using NEW.columnname. What I was asking is if there's anyway to use
the NEW record to get a list of the columnnames in it without knowing them
beforehand.
Brian Knox
On Thu, 29 May 2003, George Weaver wrote:
> Hi Brian;
>
> Assuming "NEW" has been declared as foo%rowtype, you can access the
> columns thus
>
> NEW.xxx where xxx is the column name
>
> HTH.
> George
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Knox" <laotse@aol.net>
> To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:11 AM
> Subject: [SQL] "record" datatype - plpgsql
>
>
> > Given a variable of the "record" data type in pl/pgsql, is it possible to
> > get the names of the columns ( attributes ) of that record?
> >
> > eg, given record "NEW" for table "foo", is there a way to get information
> > concerning the columns that make up that record?
> >
> > Brian Knox
> >
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