Hello 2009/2/11 Lee Hughes <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I thought that's what EXECUTE was for in plpgsql -- isn't there a way to > extract the value of a field in a row/record variable by building a SELECT > string and passing it to EXECUTE? > not in plpgsql. Try, plperl or some synamic PL language, please regards Pavel Stehule > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Lee Hughes <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > Trying to figure out how to reference a field in a cursor result, or in >> > a >> > row/record variable that I've FETCHed the cursor into, where the target >> > field name is in a variable or parameter. I think I'm just missing the >> > dereferencing syntax. >> >> There isn't any --- plpgsql doesn't deal in accesses to unknown fields >> (mainly because it can't know their type, and it's a strongly typed >> language). Consider plperl or plpython or pl-anything-but-pgsql. >> >> regards, tom lane > > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
