Hi Pavel, thanks! Yeah, thats what I though. I have to have a custom type or a 
very ugly looking solution for passing the params then.

To Postgre dev. team: If anyone who involved in Postgre development reading 
this, just a feature suggestion: allow array that can accept combination of any 
data types to be passed to a function, for example:
      // declare
      create function TEST ( anytypearray[] ) ...
      // calling
      perform TEST (array[bool, int, etc.] ) ....
This would make such a nice adition to the development for postgre. Although 
this may be complecated to achieve.

Thanks!




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From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
To: Greg <grigo...@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Sent: Mon, 25 October, 2010 17:46:47
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Composite Types and Function Parameters

Hello

I am thinking, so it isn't possible. There are a general datatype anyelement, 
but it cannot accept a second general type record.

CREATE TYPE p AS (a text, b int, c bool);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fp(p)
RETURNS int AS $$ 
BEGIN RAISE NOTICE 'a = %', $1.a; RETURN $1.b;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

postgres=# select fp(row('hello',10, false));
NOTICE:  a = hello
 fp 
────
 10
(1 row)

Regards

Pavel Stehule

Time: 0.814 ms
postgres=# select fp(row('hello',10, false));



2010/10/25 Greg <grigo...@yahoo.co.uk>

Hi guys, got across an interesting problem of passing params to a function in 
postgre: is it possible to pass a composite parameter to a function without 
declaring a type first? 

>
>For example:
>
>// declare a function
>create function TEST ( object??? )
>   ....
>   object???.paramName    // using parameter
>   ....
>
>// calling
>perform TEST( ROW(string, int, bool, etc...) )
>
>Or do I have to do the type declaration for that parameter?
>
>Thanks!
> 
>



      

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