Hackers, I've been trying to come up with a simpler way to iterate over a series of values in pgTAP tests than by creating a table, inserting rows, and then selecting from the table. The best I've come up with so far is:
CREATE TYPE vcmp AS ( lv semver, op text, rv semver); SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[ ROW('1.2.2', '=', '1.2.2')::vcmp, ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23')::vcmp ]); Not bad, but I was hoping that I could cast all the rows at once, without the type, like so: SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[ ROW('1.2.2', '=', '1.2.2'), ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23') ]) AS f(lv semver, op text, rv semver); But this gives me an error (9.0b4): psql:t/types.pg:205: ERROR: function return row and query-specified return row do not match DETAIL: Returned type unknown at ordinal position 1, but query expects semver. Pity it doesn't default to casting to text there. So I tried to just cast the first row: SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[ ROW('1.2.2'::semver, '='::text, '1.2.2'::semver), ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23') ]) AS f(lv semver, op text, rv semver); That's even worse! psql:t/types.pg:205: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 18446744071604011012 Wha?? That seems like a bug. Aside from that, might there be another way to do this without an explicit composite type? Maybe with VALUES() or something? Thanks, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers