Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.

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On 07/29/2015 08:56 AM, Corey Huinker wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us Not
> sure why inserting a variable name is so much better than inserting
> a type name?

> In a polymorphic function, I don't know the return type. It's
> whatever type was specified on the function call.
> 
> Say I've written a function with a function like 
> outer_polymorphic_function(p_rowtype anyelement,p1 ,p2,p3, ...) 
> returns setof anyelement

Remind me where you get p_rowtype at runtime again? At some point you
are still having to calculate it, no?

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Joe Conway
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