cycling through custom type fields

From: Julius Tuskenis <julius(at)nsoft(dot)lt>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: cycling through custom type fields
Date: 2011-05-19 06:54:20
Message-ID: 4DD4BE9C.7080808@nsoft.lt
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Hello,

I would like to ask if there is a possibility in postgresql (v9) to
cycle through the fields of some custom type parameter in plpgsql function.

I have a type defined:
CREATE TYPE naims.frt_pwd_ed AS
(pwd_id integer,
pwd_sub_id integer,
pwd_login character varying(100));

In pseudocode thats what I'd like to achieve:

function Changes(prm_old_pwd naims.frt_pwd_ed, prm_new_pwd
naims.frt_pwd_ed)
returns set of text
begin
FOR i = 0 to naims.frt_pwd_ed.FieldCount -1 LOOP
IF prm_old_pwd.field(i).value <> prm_new_pwd.field(i).value THEN
Return Next prm_old_pwd.field(i).fieldname;
END IF;
END LOOP;
Return;
end;

The functrion should check each field of 2 provided parameters and
return the fieldnames where the values are different. For this I need
some tools to extract field value and field name. Can this be done?

Thank You in advance!

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Julius Tuskenis
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UAB nSoft
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