From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: sad <sad@bankir.ru>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to call a function with row-type arg
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:57:54 -0400
Message-ID: <10528.1063375074@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309120931.13760.sad@bankir.ru>
References: <200309120931.13760.sad@bankir.ru>
sad <sad@bankir.ru> writes:
> how to call a function with a row_type arg ??
> CREATE FUNCTION foo(tablename) returns int .....
SELECT foo(tablename) FROM tablename;
or
SELECT foo(tablename.*) FROM tablename;
The first is traditional Postgres usage, but I think the second makes it
more clear what's going on.
BTW, if you use a table alias then the alias is the name to refer to.
SELECT foo(x.*) FROM tablename as x;
regards, tom lane
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