Re: Passing RECORD variable from func1() to func2() - Mailing list pgsql-general

> "Henry Combrinck" <henry@metroweb.co.za> writes:
>> Essentially, I would like to pass a RECORD variable from one function to
>> another using plpgsql:
>
>> func2(record)
>
> You can't declare a plpgsql function that accepts RECORD; this is simply
> not supportable.  (For one thing, which actual record types should such
> a function be considered to match?  It's a nonstarter even at the level
> of function argument resolution, let alone the implementation issues.)
> It has to take some named rowtype, instead.

Thanks for the response.

Can you give an example of what a "named rowtype" is?  Are you refering to
creating some kind of custom TYPE, and then passing that to
func2(custom_type_row)?

Thanks
Henry


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