Re: Referencing Cursor/Row/Record Fields in PL/PgSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Referencing Cursor/Row/Record Fields in PL/PgSQL
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Msg-id 24610.1234300942@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Referencing Cursor/Row/Record Fields in PL/PgSQL  (Lee Hughes <lee@hughesys.com>)
Responses Re: Referencing Cursor/Row/Record Fields in PL/PgSQL  (Lee Hughes <lee@hughesys.com>)
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Lee Hughes <lee@hughesys.com> writes:
> Trying to figure out how to reference a field in a cursor result, or in a
> row/record variable that I've FETCHed the cursor into, where the target
> field name is in a variable or parameter. I think I'm just missing the
> dereferencing syntax.

There isn't any --- plpgsql doesn't deal in accesses to unknown fields
(mainly because it can't know their type, and it's a strongly typed
language).  Consider plperl or plpython or pl-anything-but-pgsql.

            regards, tom lane

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