Bruce-- Something for the todo list. This would be extremely handy. At minimum C functions should be able to ask the type of thing that was actually passed in and get a legitimate answer even if the type were a rowtype.
This will also lead to the need for unnamed rowtypes, sooner or later. I know, I know, send a patch. --elein On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:07:18AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, other than C, plperl or pltcl is the way to go. > > As long as they can input generic composite types > > (I wasn't sure of that, but I should have known), > > Come to think of it, that is a problem: we don't have any way to declare > a function as taking "any tuple type". So even though pltcl or plperl > functions could be written to work with such input, we can't declare them. > This is a problem even for C functions. You could declare a C function > as taking "any", but then you can't even check that what you got was a > tuple ... > > Something to work on for 7.5, I suppose. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
