2010/3/12 David Fetter <david@fetter.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:50:16AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
>> >On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:59:31PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> >>2010/3/9 strk <strk@keybit.net>:
>> >>>How can a pl/pgsql trigger change the
>> >>>values of dynamic fields in NEW record ?
>> >>>
>> >>>By "dynamic" I mean that the field name
>> >>>is a variable in the trigger context.
>> >>>
>> >>>I've been told it's easy to do with pl/perl but
>> >>>I'd like to delive a pl/pgsql solution to have
>> >>>less dependencies.
>> >>It isn't possible yet
>> >
>> >well, it's possible. it's just not nice.
>> >
>> >http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/03/10/dynamic-updates-of-fields-in-new-in-plpgsql/
>>
>> Using an hstore in 9.0 it's not too bad, Try something like:
>>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dyntrig()
>> RETURNS trigger
>> LANGUAGE plpgsql
>> AS $function$
>>
>> declare
>> hst hstore;
>> begin
>> hst := hstore(NEW);
>> hst := hst || ('foo' => 'bar');
>> NEW := populate_record(NEW,hst);
>> return NEW;
>> end;
>>
>> $function$;
>>
>> But this question probably belongs on -general rather than -hackers.
>
> This is, by the way, an excellent argument for including hstore in
> core in 9.1. :)
I like it - but it looking little bit strange - I thinking we need
only one function (maybe with some special support from pl executor)
begin update_field(NEW, 'field', value); ....
Pavel
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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