Stored function not accepting null value?

From: "Deirdre Hall" <d(dot)hall(at)delcan(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Stored function not accepting null value?
Date: 2009-04-01 18:17:30
Message-ID: 03f401c9b2f6$a3c2ee90$5062140a@dc06012008
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I am using a stored function to determine whether a table needs an update
or insert, based on the merge_db function in the postgres documentation.
(Not currently including it below because it's rather long, but other than
the fact that it contains 27 values, it's pretty much the same as that
example.)

It works fine as long as all the values are defined:

select event_archive (7, 2, 2, 2, 3, text 'TIMS', 3, text 'I-90', 2, 3,
1.2, 1.3, 3, 1, 2, text 'important', timestamp '2008-01-01',

timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp '2008-01-01',
timestamp '2008-01-01', text '2 hours', timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp
'2008-01-01', text 'oak', text 'main', 2);

but if I change any of the above values to null, the function simply
doesn't operate.

select event_archive (7, 2, 2, 2, 3, text 'TIMS', 3, text 'I-90', 2, 3,
1.2, 1.3, 3, 1, 2, text 'important', timestamp '2008-01-01',

timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp '2008-01-01',
timestamp '2008-01-01', text '2 hours', timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp
'2008-01-01', text 'oak', text 'main', null);

It returns:

Total query runtime: 0 ms.

1 rows retrieved.

versus a runtime of about 13ms when it successfully updates or inserts. I
put raise notices into the function to try to debug, and it never even
hits the first one in the first LOOP when there is a null value.

The only column in the table that is declared not null would be the 7 in
the above statement (id), all other fields should be able to accept a null
value. Is this a known limitation with functions, or am I doing something
incorrectly?

Thanks,

DHall

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