Hi
I just stumbled over the following behaviour, introduced with 8.3, and
wondered if this is by design or an oversight.
If you define a domain over some existing type, constrain it to
non-null values, and use that domain as a field type in a table
definition, it seems to be impossible to declare pl/pgsql variables
of that table's row type. The problem seems to be that upon declaration,
the row variable is filled with nulls - but since the domain is marked
not-null, that immediatly triggers an exception.
Here is an example
CREATE DOMAIN d AS varchar NOT NULL;
CREATE TABLE t (txt d);
CREATE FUNCTION f() RETURNS VOID AS $$
DECLARE v_t t;
BEGIN
END;
$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
SELECT f();
Note that the following works.
CREATE TABLE t2 (txt varchar not null);
CREATE FUNCTION f2() RETURNS VOID AS $$
DECLARE v_t t2;
BEGIN
END;
$$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
SELECT f2();
If you guys agree that this is a bug, I'll try to find a fix and send a
patch.
greetings, Florian Pflug
