Re: plpgsql question: inserting records - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: plpgsql question: inserting records
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Msg-id 24837.1193426189@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to plpgsql question: inserting records  (Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>)
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Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com> writes:
> There has to be an easy way to do this and I'm just being stupid and
> missing it.  What I want to do is, in plpgsql, insert a record (of the
> right type) into a table without having to list all the columns of the
> table.  For example, I'd like to do:

Some experimentation says that "VALUES(t_rec.*)" will work as long as
t_rec is declared as the table's rowtype, and not generic "record".
(I didn't try it further back than 8.1 though.)

For future-proofing purposes I'd advise spelling it with extra
parentheses: VALUES((t_rec).*).  It doesn't matter right now but
might someday.

            regards, tom lane

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