General discussion

Hello,
Sorry for posting this in general section. I have searched everywere for a solution pls help me. I am building a trigger which would keep track of every modification to some table. here i am generlising the function. the following is the code in plpgsql.

--/* function for giving the field attributes of a given table */
CREATE FUNCTION get_fld_name(text) RETURNS _varchar AS '
DECLARE
out_fld text[20] := array[''name'',''no''];

BEGIN
RETURN out_fld;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

--/** function for recording the changes **/

CREATE FUNCTION my_func_test() RETURNS OPAQUE AS '
DECLARE

flds text[20];
fldname text;

ofld text;
nfld text;

BEGIN

flds := (SELECT * from get_fld_name(TG_RELNAME));
IF TG_OP=''INSERT'' THEN
ofld=nfld;
END IF;
FOR i IN 1..20 loop
IF flds[i] <> ''NULL'' THEN
fldname := flds[i];

--/**************** Here is the problem ****************/

ofld := OLD.fldname; -- this should return Old's value
nfld := NEW.fldname; -- this should return New's value

--/****I want to get he value from OLD.name or OLD.No *******/

--/***********************************************************

Is there any way to concatnate the 2 Objects [(OLD) and (Fldname) ] so that fldname would be converted to the value but the object OLD remains same.

***********************************************************/

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