Re: Function Parameters

Maybe you could use arrays as some function parameters ?

Can you explain why you need so many parameters ?

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:25:02 -0700, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:31:22AM +0000, Oluwatope Akinniyi wrote:
>
>> I tried to create a function with about 60 input parameters and got an
>> error message that a function cannot take more than 32 parameters.
>
> What's the function's purpose? Why does it need so many arguments?
> You might be able to get around the limitation with a composite
> type, but maybe there's a different way to do what you want.
>
> Another possibility would be to rebuild PostgreSQL and change the
> limit. I don't know what the implications are other than what the
> comment in the code says: "There is no specific upper limit, although
> large values will waste system-table space and processing time" and
> "Changing these requires an initdb."
>