I want to use a single trigger function to log multiple tables and the tables have different columns. I can get the names of the columns from the catalog. But I have not been able to figure out how to get NEW.x when x is not known until run time.
> On 07/10/2023 2:23 PM EDT Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 10, 2023, at 11:20, DAVID ROTH <adapt...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > In a trigger function, is there a way to get a list of all of the columns > > in the triggering table? > > You can get the table that the trigger fired on with TG_TABLE_SCHEMA and > TG_TABLE_NAME, and then query the system catalogs to get a list of columns. > > But can you tell us a bit more about your use-case? You may be able to write > the trigger in such a way that it doesn't need to change behavior based on > the columns.
