At 04:09 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>An alternative would be to do the the work at the application level, i.e.
>the point where the data is collected. You could use any language you like
>for that.
This has ran through my mind as an option - the project is a web
application with php and postgres, but a number of factors involved makes
it really undesirable to do this at the application level - to the point
that its worth my while to learn pl/pgsql, perl, or tcl to avoid it - or
possibly even C - none of which I know... yet :)
So I repeat the question, not to be obnoxious - but to be sure, "does
anyone *know* if any of the languages available for writing functions would
allow a field name to be referenced using a variable as all or part of the
field name?