Hey Nick,
You may do it with PL/pgSQL more easily with hstore module.
Please, refer to
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hstore.html Please, look at the hstore(record) and populate_record(record, hstore)
function. Hope this helps.
And I think it will be more faster then you solution.
Regards,
Dmitriy
2010/9/9 Nick
<nboutelier@gmail.com> I need to dynamically update NEW columns. Ive been inserting the NEW
values into a temp table, updating them, then passing the temp table
values back to NEW (is there a better way?). Ive had success with this
method unless there is a null value...
EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMP TABLE new AS SELECT $1.*' USING NEW;
EXECUTE 'UPDATE new SET ' || dyn_col_name || ' = 1';
EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM new' INTO NEW;
EXECUTE 'DROP TABLE new';
This last line...
EXECUTE 'SELECT $1.' || dyn_col_name INTO val USING NEW;
gives the ERROR: could not identify column "col_one" in record data
type.
However RAISE EXCEPTION '%',NEW.col_one;
returns "1" correctly.
If col_one does does not start out as a null value, then everything
works. Why does the passing from temp table back to NEW lose the USING
functionality?
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