On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:44:26AM -0600, Jeff Amiel wrote:
> >Using triggers, is there a way to loop through the fields of the OLD
> >and NEW records? I haven't found a generic way to get the field name
> >and value that triggered the update other than hard coding if
> >statements to compare every field of the OLD and NEW records.
>
> We (my company) never found a way. We ended up writing java code that
> analyzed the catalog tables that generated the appropriate 'if'
> statements in the trigger functions for us....
As far as I know you can't do this yet in PL/pgSQL, but you can in
other languages like PL/Perl and PL/Tcl.
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Michael Fuhr
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