Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql
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Msg-id 18108.1258230665@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Still, doing that SELECT seems rather silly since NEW and OLD already
> contain the required information. So I still believe that having
> something like record_name() and record_types() would be useful. And at
> least these functions have less of an issue with the type system...

Yeah.  I don't have any objection in principle to providing such
functions; I'm just wondering how far that really goes towards
solving real-world problems.
        regards, tom lane


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