On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Steve White <swhite@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I ran into a roadblock at the very bottom of a fairly large database > design implementation. It will be at least messy to fix, unless there is > a neat solution. > > The roadblock is: > > There is a record, which may be from any of a set of similar databases. > Field names for this record are computed as strings. Using these strings, > I need to access fields of the record. > > But I can't find the syntax for it. > > Now, if a record variable is a known row type, I can get a field of a > computed name. > For a generic RECORD I can get a field by putting an explicit name the code, > (rec).FieldName1 > But can one get the value of a computed field from a generic RECORD? > why are you using generic records then? :-) Maybe there is an elegant solution to your issue with a bit more context. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
