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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Riccardo G. Facchini <abief_ag_-postgresql@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: function with a composite type calling another function - Mission Impossible?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:43:59 -0400
Message-ID: <24964.1086191039@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040602145254.44625.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040602145254.44625.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>

"Riccardo G. Facchini" <abief_ag_-postgresql@yahoo.com> writes:
> declare my_new_complex complex_number;

> select * from complex_to_complex(my_new_complex) into my_result;

> ERROR:  column "my_new_complex" does not exist

plpgsql doesn't presently cope with passing whole-row variables into SQL
expressions, which is essentially what you've got here.  There's some
chance it will work in time for 7.5.

			regards, tom lane



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