In my experience, the best way to find out answers like this is to try it
out and see.  Usually I find that I need to fiddle around with the syntax a
bit (I believe it's called debugging) before getting something to work.
Postgresql is very powerful; the capability to utilize that power comes at a
price.  In other words, be prepared to put in a solid investment if you want
to see a return.
(I'm not accustomed to preaching, but sometimes this just needs to be said).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soma Interesting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 4:39 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.
> 
> 
> I want to be able to reference NEW.field_0 though NEW.field_x where x is 
> coming from NEW.qty in a FOR loop of pl/pgsql function. Is this possible?
> 
> In other words:
> 
> FOR j IN 0..NEW.str LOOP
>                               
>       ans := ''q'' || i || ''a'' || j;
>       cor := ''q'' || i || ''c'' || j;
>       eval := 'q'' || i || ''e'' || j;
>                               
>       IF NEW.ans = NEW.cor
>       THEN NEW.eval := 1;
>       END IF;
> 
> END LOOP;
> 
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