Re: returning composite types.

so what you're saying is that it's not a syntactical error, it's just an
unsupported feature.

Ok then, I will just call my functions sending the values from my composite
type individually.

thanks guys!

On Saturday 29 March 2003 15:25, Joe Conway wrote:
> Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> > yes, i was trying to do something like that, but it breaks always in the
> > same place, first I thought that it was because of the way I was
> > assigning values to the fields of my row, but now I'm beginning to think
> > that the reason is the way I pass the row to f2.
> >
> > Here is the error:
> > franco=# SELECT f1();
> > WARNING:  Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function f1
> > WARNING:  line 5 at select into variables
> > ERROR:  Attribute "result" not found
> >
> > CREATE TYPE mytype AS (val1 INTEGER, val2 INTEGER, val3 INTEGER);
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f1() RETURNS mytype AS '
> > DECLARE
> >    result mytype%ROWTYPE;
> > BEGIN
> >    result.val1:=1;
> >    SELECT val2, val3 INTO result.val2, result.val3 FROM f2(result);
>
> It looks like plpgsql doesn't support composite type variables as
> arguments to functions that are called from within a function. The error
> is saying it cannot find an attribute named result -- that's because
> there is no *attribute* called result, there is a rowtype variable.
>
> I'm not sure right off what is involved in fixing this, but you can
> always pass the individual attributes to f2:
>
> CREATE TYPE mytype AS (val1 INTEGER, val2 INTEGER, val3 INTEGER);
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f2(int,int,int) RETURNS mytype AS '
> DECLARE
>     arg1 ALIAS FOR $1;
>     arg2 ALIAS FOR $2;
>     arg3 ALIAS FOR $3;
>     newval2 int;
>     newval3 int;
>     result mytype%ROWTYPE;
> BEGIN
>     newval2 := coalesce(arg2,2) * arg1;
>     newval3 := coalesce(arg3,3) * arg1;
>     SELECT INTO result.val1, result.val2, result.val3
>       arg1, newval2, newval3;
>     RETURN result;
> END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f1(int) RETURNS mytype AS '
> DECLARE
>     result mytype%ROWTYPE;
> BEGIN
>     result.val1:=$1;
>     SELECT INTO result.val2, result.val3 val2, val3
>       FROM f2(result.val1, result.val2, result.val3);
>     RETURN result;
> END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> regression=# select * from f1(2);
>   val1 | val2 | val3
> ------+------+------
>      2 |    4 |    6
> (1 row)
>
> HTH,
>
> Joe