Re: [7.4.6] Calling PLpgSQL stored procedures with table row arguments via JDBC?

On Dec 15, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Kris Jurka wrote:

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>
>
> In plain SQL calling functions with rowtype arguments is not easy to do
> before 8.0.  There is no row constructor in SQL prior to 8.0, so you
> need
> to get the row instance created via another means.  Either via a SELECT
> like:
>
>

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> SELECT do_stuff(create_foobar('a','b'));
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> where create_foobar takes two varchar arguments and returns foobar.
>

Kris,

Thanks for your speedy reply.  In general, there are lots of features
that we would like to have in 8.0, but we are more comfortable
releasing on a more stable release version at the moment.  We're
considering the transition to 8.0 at some point in the future.  I guess
I'll add another feature to the list of things we would like to have.
;)

In regards to the specific solution that you offer above with a
function that creates row objects, would it be possible to invoke a
composed function via a CallableStatement in Postgres JDBC, like this:

CallableStatement proc = conn.prepareCall ("{ ? = call do_stuff
(create_foobar (?, ?)) }");
proc.registerOutParameter (1, Types.INTEGER);
proc.setObject (2, x);
proc.setObject (3, y);

Eli Bingham
SavageBeast Technologies