On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:44:26AM -0600, Jeff Amiel wrote: > >Using triggers, is there a way to loop through the fields of the OLD > >and NEW records? I haven't found a generic way to get the field name > >and value that triggered the update other than hard coding if > >statements to compare every field of the OLD and NEW records. > > We (my company) never found a way. We ended up writing java code that > analyzed the catalog tables that generated the appropriate 'if' > statements in the trigger functions for us.... As far as I know you can't do this yet in PL/pgSQL, but you can in other languages like PL/Perl and PL/Tcl. -- Michael Fuhr