Passing dynamic parameters to a table-returning function - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi all,

I know I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I have been unable
to figure this out or find any docs on it.

I have a function that takes in a postal address and normalizes it through
text manipulation etc.:

*fn_normalize_address*(*in_line_one* character varying, *in_line_two *character
varying, *in_line_three* character varying, *in_city* character varying, *
in_locality* character varying, *in_region* character varying, *
in_postal_code* character varying, *in_country* character varying)
*RETURNS TABLE*(*line_one* character varying, *line_two* character varying,
*line_three* character varying, *city* character varying,
*locality*character varying,
*region* integer, *region_string* character varying,
*postal_code*character varying,
*country* integer, *country_string* character varying)


I also have a table of addresses that I'd like to normalize:

                                      Table "public.tb_address"
        Column        |          Type          |
 Modifiers
----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
 address              | integer                | not null default
nextval('sq_pk_address'::regclass)
 name                 | character varying(64)  |
 line_one             | character varying(256) | not null
 line_two             | character varying(256) |
 line_three           | character varying(256) |
 city                 | character varying(256) | not null
 locality             | character varying(256) |
 region               | integer                | not null
 zip_postal           | character varying(32)  | not null
 zip_postal_extension | character varying(32)  |



I am trying to write a query to update the addresses in this table with
their normalized versions. Each address is uniquely identified by the
integer surrogate primary key "tb_address.address".

I'm having trouble because I can't figure out how to select the primary key
from that table, as well as all the columns from the function's output. I'm
unsure of the syntax for passing in values from columns in the database as
the parameters of a set-returning function from which I want to select *.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Moshe


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Moshe Jacobson
Nead Werx, Inc. | Manager of Systems Engineering
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