"Florian G. Pflug" <f...@phlo.org> writes:
> Ok, I must be missing something. I currently fail to see how
> my proposed
> record_value(record, name, anyelement) returns anyelement
> function differs (from the type system's point of view) from
> value_from_string(text, anyelement) returns anyelement
> which simply casts the text value to the given type and can easily be
> implemented in plpgsq.
The problem is at the call site --- if you try to call it with different
record types on different calls you're going to get a failure.
Or so I expect anyway.
regards, tom lane
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