Re: wishlist for 8.4

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:06:49AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> =?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2wgSmFjcXVvdA==?= <sxpert(at)sxpert(dot)org> writes:
>>>> so, I propose the use of
>>>> NEW[variable_containing_the_column_name]
>>>> (which can obviously be extended to any tuples) to allow such
>>>> access.
>>>
>>>> what do you experts think ?
>>>
>>> Zero chance. plplgsql is a strongly typed language, and a
>>> construct like that couldn't have any known-in-advance data type.
>>
>> Would it be reasonable to teach EXECUTE about NEW and OLD? That
>> should allow the OP to do what he's looking for...
>
> You could have a function get_attribute_as_text(NEW, 'id') or even
> get_attribute_quoted(NEW, 'id')
>
> It would be nice to have a more dynamic language built-in. I'm not
> aware of any BSD-licensed dynamic languages though.

Perl is BSD-compatible.

Cheers,
David.
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