Re: pseudo-type record arguments for PL-functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: pseudo-type record arguments for PL-functions
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Msg-id 20060504213934.GG6429@fetter.org
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In response to Re: pseudo-type record arguments for PL-functions  (Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se>)
Responses Re: pseudo-type record arguments for PL-functions
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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:02:02PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Why can PLs not handle pseudo-types?
> >
> >No one's done the work to figure out which ones are sensible to
> >support and then add the logic needed to support them.
> >
> PL/Java will handle the RECORD type correctly. I'm just finalizing a
> new, more flexible, type mapping implementation for PL/Java and it
> would be easy to add support for more pseudo types too. But what
> others would make sense?

Ideally, some way to get all kinds of user-defined types.  DOMAINs,
too. :)

Cheers,
D
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