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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Iterating through individual fields of OLD/NEW records in plpgsql trigger
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Msg-id 3086.1053834200@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Iterating through individual fields of OLD/NEW records in plpgsql trigger  (j.sachanbinski@coroplast.de)
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j.sachanbinski@coroplast.de writes:
> is there a way to loop/iterate through every individual field of the
> OLD/NEW records in plpgsql trigger function?

No, plpgsql isn't designed to treat field names as data.  You could do
it in pltcl though.  Maybe plpython too; I'm not familiar with that.

            regards, tom lane

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