On 8/12/23 13:09, Rhys A.D. Stewart wrote:
Greetings all,
I am writing a trigger and would like to know how to dynamically
access a column from the "OLD" variable. pk_col is the column name
from the table.
I've come up with either doing this:
EXECUTE format('SELECT $1.%1$I', pk_col) INTO pk_val USING OLD;
Got focused on pk_val = OLD[pk_col] and missed the low hanging fruit:
pk_val = OLD.pk_col
which looks a bit excessive, or this
pk_val = to_jsonb(OLD.*)->pk_col
which looks cleaner, but then I am having to incur a little overhead
by using the to_jsonb function. Ideally, something like this would be
great:
pk_val = OLD[pk_col]
but evidently we can't subscript ROW types.
Am I missing out on a simpler or more elegant solution?
Rhys
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