"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM, PG Bug reporting form <
> noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> p_my_type.rc_tbl1.co_1 := 1; -- ERRO: "p_my_type.rc_tbl1.co_1" is
>> not
>> variable unknown !!!!
> Short answer is that you cannot simply assign components of a composite
> type one-at-a-time, you have to build up the full final composite result in
> one expression and assign the result of the expression to the typed
> variable (p_my_type in this instance).
It's not quite that bad. IIRC, plpgsql handles only one level of field
assignment, so you could write
p_my_type.rc_tbl1 := ROW(1, 'Teeeeeeeeeeest');
but not
p_my_type.rc_tbl1.co_1 := 1;
Improving that --- and also allowing mixed array-element-and-field
assignment, say "p_my_type.rc_tbl1[2].co_1 := 1;" --- has been on the
radar screen for a long time, but nobody has gotten round to it.
I think I might've made it a bit easier as of v11, because it'd no longer
be necessary to implement field assignment in two separate code paths
for "rows" and "records". But it's still a fair amount of work.
regards, tom lane
