On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Pavel, Tom, Merlin,
>
> As a user, I would like to work with records by using simple API:
>
> -- Returns a number of key/values pairs of record.
> nKeys_ integer := nRecordKeys(NEW);
>
> -- Returns an i-th key.
> key_i text := recordKey(NEW, i);
>
> -- Returns an i-th value.
> value1_ text := recordValueByIndex(NEW, i);
>
> -- Returns an value by named key.
> value2_ text := recordValueByName(NEW, "id");
>
> and so on...
This doesn't really solve the problem -- you need some participation
from plpgsql because function behavior post-plan time can not be
ambiguous.
merlin