Re: more than 32 parameters to a function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Ottavio Campana <ottavio@campana.vi.it> writes:
> I'm writing some stored procedures in pl/pgsql for a database using
> postgresql 7.4.7.
> I need to write a complex function with 65 arguments, but when I try to
> run it I get an error complaining that arguments can be up to 32.

Update to 8.1, which allows 100 by default.  Or modify FUNC_MAX_ARGS and
recompile --- but be aware that in 7.4.x that change requires an initdb.

Or, as suggested elsewhere, rethink that function's API.  A list of 65
arguments seems terribly error-prone to me...

            regards, tom lane