I got it to work in plpgsql through the use of pg_attribute and a temporary
table with known field names like "field0", "field1", etc. Works very nicely
and performance seems fine so far.

Thanks for your help.

Lee

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hello
>
> 2009/2/11 Lee Hughes <lee(at)hughesys(dot)com>:
> > 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?
> >
>
> not in plpgsql. Try, plperl or some synamic PL language, please
>
> regards
> Pavel Stehule
>
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>
> >> Lee Hughes <lee(at)hughesys(dot)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.
> >>
> >>                        regards, tom lane
> >
> >
> >
>

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