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To: "Jatinder Sangha" <Jatinder@sanghaservices.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Passing composite values to functions 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Jatinder Sangha" <Jatinder@sanghaservices.co.uk> writes:
> I'm having trouble passing a composite variable to a function.

AFAIK, plpgsql doesn't support this --- it doesn't have any way to pass
a row or record variable as a parameter to the main executor.  Possibly
this will get fixed someday; I don't know of anyone working on it now
though.

			regards, tom lane