Re: LOOP?

Ray Madigan wrote:
> I am writing a trigger to inspect a row of a temporary table to determine if
> the row has any null columns,  I will return as soon as I find a null
> column.  I ran across this in the manual and It seems like I could use
> 
> The FOR-IN-EXECUTE statement is another way to iterate over rows:
> [<<label>>]
> FOR record_or_row IN EXECUTE text_expression LOOP
> statements
> END LOOP;
> 
> postgresql has a RECORD type which is an abstract row.
> 
> Does it have any fields to tell the length?
> 
> Does it have an accessor function like new.element(index};

Short answer - no to the above.

You'll not find what you want in plpgsql, perhaps look at pltcl or 
plperl for this sort of thing.

--  Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd