Thank you, Sekhar, et al. I've done so: created a proper User Defined Java class (implementing Externalizable), created the type in Derby, mapped the function, but it still doesn't seem to work.
Here is what I'm trying to achieve (names such as JAVA_FUNCTION and USER_DEFINED_TYPE are symbolic): We have a fairly large SQL with an insanely large case statement. One of the tables used in the SQL has many columns, 90 of which encode some specific data, such as timeseries (for simplicity, let's call them Column00 - Column89). So, we mapped a Java function and then we need to do something like this: select a,b,c, case when JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f) = 0 then COLUMN00 when JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f) = 1 then COLUMN01 when JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f) = 2 then COLUMN02 ... when JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f) = 88 then COLUMN89 else COLUMN89 end as col_value ... But such select causes JAVA_FUNCTION to be invoked 90 times. So, we tried to simplify this by having a JAVA_FUNCTION which takes the params: select a,b,c JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f,COLUMN00,..,COLUMN89) as col_value ... So, that the switch happens in Java, but that's when we ran into the "number of arguments" limit of 90. As per your suggestion, I created a UDT which takes 90 parameters and assigns them to the internal array. Then an inner function calculates an index into that array based on (d,e,f) and returns the value without resorting to a switch. So, I was able to properly define and create the UDT and the function, but have trouble invoking it. What I’m attempting to do is: select a,b,c, JAVA_FUNCTION(d,e,f,USER_DEFINED_TYPE(COLUMN00, ... , COLUMN89)) as col_value ... But doing so causes the following error: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: 'USER_DEFINED_TYPE' is not recognized as a function or procedure. at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.generateCsSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.wrapInSQLException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.handleException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.handleException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.ConnectionChild.handleException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedPreparedStatement.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedPreparedStatement20.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedPreparedStatement30.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedPreparedStatement40.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.jdbc.Driver40.newEmbedPreparedStatement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source) Caused by: ERROR 42Y03: 'USER_DEFINED_TYPE' is not recognized as a function or procedure. at org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException.newException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.StaticMethodCallNode.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.JavaToSQLValueNode.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.SQLToJavaValueNode.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.MethodCallNode.bindParameters(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.StaticMethodCallNode.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.JavaToSQLValueNode.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.ResultColumn.bindExpression(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.ResultColumnList.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.SelectNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.TableOperatorNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.UnionNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.TableOperatorNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.UnionNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.DMLStatementNode.bindExpressions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.DMLStatementNode.bind(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.CursorNode.bindStatement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.GenericStatement.prepMinion(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.GenericStatement.prepare(Unknown Source) at org.apache.derby.impl.sql.conn.GenericLanguageConnectionContext.prepareInternalStatement(Unknown Source) What am I doing incorrectly? Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Sekhar [mailto:kosurusek...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 1:22 AM To: derby-user@db.apache.org Subject: Re: number of parameters Pavel Bortnovskiy <pbortnovskiy@...> writes: > > > > Hello: > > we have a need to create a java-mapped function which will take 92 parameters, but we are running into Derby’s limitation: > > Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: The limit for the number of > parameters for a procedure has been exceeded. Limit is 90 and number of parameters for procedure > CALC_VALUES are 92. > > http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.8/ref/rrefdbmlimits.html > > Can this limit either be increased or worked-around? > > Thanks, > Pavel. > > > Hi Pavel The best solution is rather than passing 92 method parameters we can create User Defined Type in Derby. An UDT will point to external java class where we can have all parameters as properties. now you can use this class as a single parameter. Regards Sekhar. 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