"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> I'd like to replace this function-generating function by a generic
> trigger function that works for all tables. Due to the lack of any way
> to inspect the *structure* of a record type, however, I'd have to use a
> C language function for that, which induces quite some maintenance
> headaches (especially if deployed on windows).
Trying to do this in plpgsql is doomed to failure and heartache, because
it's fundamentally a strongly typed language. The proposed functions
won't fix that and hence will be unusable in practice. I'd suggest
either using C, or using one of the less-strongly-typed PLs.
regards, tom lane