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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CALL and named parameters
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 11:10:55 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCRh-_iLoUtMAtyunw_-O6sgpWo04sOmB38MUVNpuQVSkL_0Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFCRh-_iLoUtMAtyunw_-O6sgpWo04sOmB38MUVNpuQVSkL_0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/6/25 10:48, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> (sorry, this is a rant...).
> 
> Was getting an error calling a procedure
> 
> ERROR:  procedure ... does not exist
> HINT:  No procedure matches the given name and argument types. You
> might need to add explicit type casts.
> 
> I verify USAGE on the SCHEMA of the proc. OK.
> I verify EXECUTE on the FUNCTION. OK.
> I verify the names of the parameters, in my CALL with named arguments. OK.
> 
> Turns out, thanks to ChatGPT for clueing me in, CALL does NOT support
> named parameters. And it's about the least helpful error message
> PostgreSQL could have provided IMO. I'd expect something much better
> in this specific case, FWIW.

I am not following as:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE public.call_test(IN a integer, IN b integer)
  LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $procedure$
BEGIN
     RAISE NOTICE 'c = %', a + b;
END;
$procedure$


call call_test (a=>1, b=>2);
NOTICE:  c = 3
CALL


You will need to provide more information on your specific case.

> 
> That's two unhelpful error messages in a short time :).
> 
> Thanks, and again sorry for the rant. Wasted time on this. --DD
> 
> 


-- 
Adrian Klaver
[email protected]

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