Elein, Robert, I think Robert can do this in 7.3.3, and in PL/pgSQL. But I'm not going any further on it until Robert clarifies his examples, because I'm not sure what he's talking about.
In your example, Robert, you use "f1" to indicate both the column f1 and the value of the column f1. This makes it impossible for me to understand which of the two you want. Try again? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster