Re: Function Parameters - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
Subject Re: Function Parameters
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In response to Re: Function Parameters  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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    Maybe you could use arrays as some function parameters ?

    Can you explain why you need so many parameters ?

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:25:02 -0700, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:31:22AM +0000, Oluwatope Akinniyi wrote:
>
>> I tried to create a function with about 60 input parameters and got an
>> error message that a function cannot take more than 32 parameters.
>
> What's the function's purpose?  Why does it need so many arguments?
> You might be able to get around the limitation with a composite
> type, but maybe there's a different way to do what you want.
>
> Another possibility would be to rebuild PostgreSQL and change the
> limit.  I don't know what the implications are other than what the
> comment in the code says: "There is no specific upper limit, although
> large values will waste system-table space and processing time" and
> "Changing these requires an initdb."
>



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