On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:31:23PM -0400, Steve Manes wrote:
> I need to extract a SETOF column names for a table in plpgsql. How
> is this done?
You can do it in SQL.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_columns_for (
in_schema TEXT,
in_table TEXT
) RETURNS SETOF TEXT
LANGUAGE SQL
STRICT
AS $$
SELECT c.column_name
FROM information_schema.columns c
WHERE c.table_schema = $1
AND c.table_name = $2
ORDER BY ordinal_position;
$$;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_columns_for (
in_table TEXT
) RETURNS SETOF TEXT
LANGUAGE SQL
STRICT
AS $$
SELECT * FROM get_columns_for('public', $1);
$$;
HTH :)
Cheers,
D
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