> > What I was asking is if there's anyway to use the NEW record to
> > get a list of the columnnames in it without knowing them
> > beforehand.
>
> Not in plpgsql ... and if you did, you couldn't do anything useful
> with the names (like access the fields) anyway. I believe you can
> do it in pl
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Brian Knox wrote:
That's not what I was asking. I know I can access the values of each
column using NEW.columnname. What I was asking is if there's anyway to use
the NEW record to get a list of the columnnames in it without k
Brian Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I was asking is if there's anyway to use
> the NEW record to get a list of the columnnames in it without knowing them
> beforehand.
Not in plpgsql ... and if you did, you couldn't do anything useful with
the names (like access the fields) anyway. I be
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: [SQL] "record" datatype - plpgsql
>
>
> > Given a variable of the "record" data type in pl/pgsql, is it possible to
> > get the names of the columns ( attributes ) of t
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Brian Knox wrote:
> Given a variable of the "record" data type in pl/pgsql, is it possible to
> get the names of the columns ( attributes ) of that record?
>
> eg, given record "NEW" for table "foo", is there a way to get information
> concerning the columns that make up that
Brian,
You can also use the "record" type as well in the same way.
George
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From: "George Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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29, 2003 11:11 AM
Subject: [SQL] "record" datatype - plpgsql
> Given a variable of the "record" data type in pl/pgsql, is it possible to
> get the names of the columns ( attributes ) of that record?
>
> eg, given record "NEW" for table "foo",
Given a variable of the "record" data type in pl/pgsql, is it possible to
get the names of the columns ( attributes ) of that record?
eg, given record "NEW" for table "foo", is there a way to get information
concerning the columns that make up that record?
Brian Knox
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