Re: "record" datatype - plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "record" datatype - plpgsql
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Msg-id 9212.1054302602@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: "record" datatype - plpgsql  (Brian Knox <laotse@aol.net>)
Responses Re: "record" datatype - plpgsql  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
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Brian Knox <laotse@aol.net> writes:
> 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.

Not in plpgsql ... and if you did, you couldn't do anything useful with
the names (like access the fields) anyway.  I believe you can do it in
pltcl though.
        regards, tom lane


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