So what should I do? File a bug to the main Postgres mailing list? Or just not support that feature?
2011/2/16 Oliver Jowett <oli...@opencloud.com> > On 17/02/11 00:58, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Lukas Eder <lukas.e...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm not trying to fix the signature. I want exactly that signature. I > want > >> to return 1 UDT as an OUT parameter from a function. > >> > >> Somewhere between JDBC and the database, this signature is lost, and > JDBC's > >> internal code tells me that I have to bind 6 OUT parameters, instead of > 1. > >> It happens to be so, because the UDT contains 6 attributes, so somehow > the > >> JDBC/database protocol flattens the UDT, and I think that's a bug, > either in > >> JDBC or in the protocol or in the database. My findings were that I can > >> correctly read the UDT OUT parameter using the pgAdmin III tool, so I > >> excluded the database as a bug holder candidate. > > > > Oh, OK. Sorry, I can't help you any with the JDBC side... > > Well, the underlying problem is that "SELECT * from > function_with_one_out_parameter()" is returning *6* columns, not 1 > column. I don't know if that's expected or not on the plpgsql side, but > the JDBC driver has no way of distinguishing that sort of result from a > function that has 6 OUT parameters. > > Oliver >
