On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Peter Devoy <pe...@3xe.co.uk> wrote:

> As part of the extension I am writing I am trying to create a trigger
> procedure in which the value of the primary key of the NEW or OLD row
> is used. The trigger will be fired by arbitrary tables so the column
> name must be dynamic.  Something like:
>
>         pk_column := 'foo_id'; --example assignment only
>
>         EXECUTE 'INSERT INTO  bar (baz) VALUES ($1)'
>         USING NEW.quote_literal(pk_column);
>
> Out of desperation I have pretty much brute forced many weird
> combinations of quote_literal, quote_ident, ::regclass, || and USING.
> Unfortunately, I have not been able to get anything to work so any
> help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks for reading
>
>
...
    -- Dump into proper partition
    sql := 'INSERT INTO ' || v_ets_destination || ' VALUES ( ($1).*)';

    -- DEBUG
    --RAISE NOTICE 'SQL: %',sql;

    BEGIN
         EXECUTE sql USING NEW;
...

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