Re: plpgsql Question..

Thanks rod ,

i am looking into the possibilities.

Regds
mallah.


On Monday 28 Apr 2003 6:30 pm, Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 08:12, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> > is it possible to access a feild in a RECORD type
> > variable where the feild name is variable.
> >
> > eg say r is a record having feild name , email , salary
> >
> > r.name is 'foo'
> > r.email is 'bar@foo.com'
> > r.salary is 1000
> >
> > suppose  feild_name iterates via a FOR LOOP
> > through values (name , email , salary)
> >
> > is it possible to access that feild in record r
> > inside the loop ?
>
> Not that I'm aware of.  What you can do it build the query to SELECT
> <variable> FROM table.
>
> Another alternative is to switch languages. A perl, tcl, etc. based
> function would be capable of doing what you want.

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