On Dec 7, 11:07 pm, mmonc...@xxxxxxxxx ("Merlin Moncure") wrote: > On 7 Dec 2006 14:02:53 -0800, BigSmoke <bigsm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm facing a particular task for which I need any procedural language > > but PL/PgSQL. I can't use PL/PgSQL because it doesn't allow me to use > > local variables such as new and old from a dynamic command. > could you clarify what you are trying to do and why pl/pgsql cant do it? I'm dealing with a trigger function which needs to check the nullness of a column in 'new' and 'old'. The catch is that the trigger function needs to take the name of that column as an argument. (I've tried a kludge which stores 'new' and 'old' in a temporary table, but this kludge seems too unreliable to trust.) - Rowan