Re: Composite Types and Function Parameters

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Greg <grigorey@yahoo.co.uk>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-10-26T01:32:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 10/25/2010 07:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> However, that objection doesn't hold for plperl or pltcl (and likely
> not plpython, though I don't know that language enough to be sure).
> So it would be a reasonable feature request to teach those PLs to
> accept "record" parameters.  I think the fact that they don't stems
> mostly from nobody having revisited their design since the
> infrastructure that supports record_out was created.

That seems like a good idea. I'll look at it for plperl.

cheers

andrew