I thought that's what EXECUTE was for in plpgsql -- isn't there a way to extract the value of a field in a row/record variable by building a SELECT string and passing it to EXECUTE?
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Lee Hughes <lee@hughesys.com> writes: > Trying to figure out how to reference a field in a cursor result, or in a > row/record variable that I've FETCHed the cursor into, where the target > field name is in a variable or parameter. I think I'm just missing the > dereferencing syntax.
There isn't any --- plpgsql doesn't deal in accesses to unknown fields (mainly because it can't know their type, and it's a strongly typed language). Consider plperl or plpython or pl-anything-but-pgsql.
