Re: pl/PgSQL, variable names in NEW

Hello

no, it's not possible in plpgsql. Please, use plperl or plpython.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On 07/04/2008, Martin Edlman <edlman@fortech.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         is it possible to use variables as field names in the NEW record?
> Let's suppose I have a varchar attname containg the name of the field and I
> want to know a value that field of the NEW record.
>
>  Problem is that I get an error 'record "new" has no field "attname"'. Of
> course I want to use a value of NEW.author when col.attname = attname =
> 'author'.
>
>  Is there a solution?
>
>  Example trigger function. It finds all columns in the table which are
> referenced in other tables and checks if the value of the column has
> changed. If yes, then invoke some other function. The problem is that the
> column name is in the 'col' record and is different during the loop and at
> each function call.
>
>  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION replace_values() RETURNS trigger AS
>  $BODY$
>         DECLARE
>                 col record;
>                 attname varchar;
>         BEGIN
>                 FOR col IN
>                 SELECT DISTINCT pgaf.attname, pgaf.attnum
>                 FROM pg_constraint, pg_attribute AS pgaf
>                 WHERE pg_constraint.contype = 'f'       -- fkey
>                 AND pg_constraint.confrelid = TG_RELID  -- table oid
>                 AND pgaf.attrelid = TG_RELID
>                 AND pgaf.attnum = ANY(pg_constraint.confkey) LOOP
>
>                         attname := col.attname;
>                         IF NEW.attname <> OLD.attname THEN
>                                 RAISE NOTICE '  value changed from "%" to
> "%"', OLD.attname, NEW.attname;
>                                 -- INVOKE OTHER FUNCTION
>                         END IF;
>                 END LOOP;
>
>         END;
>  $BODY$
>   LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
>  --
>  Martin Edlman
>  Fortech Ltd.
>  57001 Litomysl, CZ
>
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