Create a plpgsql function that reformats your row as an array. Example: I have a table named task_parameter with three columns: Table "camera.task_parameter" Column | Type | Modifiers --------------------------+---------------------------------+----------- parameter_name | character varying(255) | not null parameter_value | text | task_id | bigint | not null I create a plpgsql function that takes a task_parameter row and returns an array, one column per array entry: create or replace function task_parameter_array(tp task_parameter) returns text[] as $$ declare result text[]; begin result[1] := tp.parameter_name; result[2] := tp.parameter_value; result[3] := tp.task_id; return result; end $$ language plpgsql; select task_parameter_array(task_parameter) from task_parameter limit 1; task_parameter_array ---------------------------------------------------- {"db alignments per query",25,1286428019358957945} (1 row) You can write a similar function for your table and then your code would look like: OPEN curs FOR select classif_to_array(classif) as group_array from classif; loop fetch curs into tmprec; exit when not found; for I in 1..20 loop ... value := tmprec.group_array{I}; of course, this begs the question, whjy not define you table to store an array...? -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ivan Pavlov Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:55 PM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Need help to dynamically access to colomns in function! If you need them one by one why fetch them into tmprec? Take a look at the docs for FETCH: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-fetch.html especially the FETCH ABSOLUTE... regards, Ivan Pavlov On Dec 16, 3:37 pm, aesthete2...@xxxxxxxxx ("Иван Марков") wrote: > Hello. I have table classif with columns: > ... , group1, group2, group3, ... , group48, ... > > In function i do query and want run on every row and dynamically operate on > columns from group1 to group20. I do something like this: > > OPEN curs FOR select * from classif; > loop > fetch curs into tmprec; > exit when not found; > > for I in 1..20 loop > ... > -- problem code is: > value := tmprec.group{I}; > -- i cannot dynamically access to group1, group2, ... colomns according > to "I" variable. > ... > > end loop; > end loop; > > I have to manually identify and handle each entry without a cycle do > something like this: > value := tmprec.group1; > ... > value := tmprec.group2; > ... > value := tmprec.group2; > ... > value := tmprec.group20; > > Please help me to do it dynamically with a loop, depending on the I? > something like this in a loop: > value := tmprec.group{I}; > > Thanks. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general