Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgresql-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql
Date: 2009-11-14 20:31:05
Message-ID: 18108.1258230665@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> Still, doing that SELECT seems rather silly since NEW and OLD already
> contain the required information. So I still believe that having
> something like record_name() and record_types() would be useful. And at
> least these functions have less of an issue with the type system...

Yeah. I don't have any objection in principle to providing such
functions; I'm just wondering how far that really goes towards
solving real-world problems.

regards, tom lane

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