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From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: A trigger that acts on a column with a given column name
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Msg-id 20050707210303.GA28281@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to A trigger that acts on a column with a given column name  (BigSmoke <bigsmoke@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:28:23PM +0200, BigSmoke wrote:
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> In a trigger function, I'm trying to refer to a column given by an argument
> to the trigger function.

This comes up frequently -- search the archives for past discussion.
The usual answer is to write the function in a language like PL/Perl,
PL/Tcl, or PL/Python.  See the PL/Tcl documentation for an example:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/pltcl-trigger.html

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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