Question

I’m programming a PL/pgSQL function with this:

cols_to_select := according to a set of rules, we get the name of the columns

FOR I IN EXECUTE 'SELECT '||cols_to_select||' FROM tabl' LOOP
  -- how to access to fields of record I without knowing their names?
  -- 

END LOOP;

Answer 1

This is one way I figured out:

cols_to_select := according to a set of rules, we get the name of the columns

FOR I IN EXECUTE 'SELECT ARRAY['||cols_to_select||'] as AR FROM tabl' LOOP
  -- how to access to fields of record I without knowing their names?
  FOR j IN 1..array_upper(I.ar,1) LOOP
    RAISE NOTICE '%', I.AR[j];
  END LOOP;

END LOOP;

The problem with this solution is that fails when the columns have different types.