Re: Functions with more than 32 parameters

Any advice for an opensource newbie running on Windows 2000? How hard is it
to rebuild for windows? Any instructions? What compiler?

Oisin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley D. Snobar" <bradsnobar@netscape.net>
To: ""Oisin Glynn"" <me@oisinglynn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Functions with more than 32 parameters


>I just had the same problem the other day.
>
> Change this file:
> ..../postgresql-8.0.0/src/include/pg_config_manual.h
>
> #define INDEX_MAX_KEYS          64   /*was 32 */
> #define FUNC_MAX_ARGS           INDEX_MAX_KEYS
>
> Recompile the server.
>
> make distclean
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> "Oisin Glynn" <me@oisinglynn.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to keep database access encapsulated in functions from an
>>insert
>>and update point of view so as all of the applications writing to the
>>database are using the same functions/statements.
>>
>>My problem is I was creating functions to do inserts/updates and now I
>>have
>>a table with more than 32 columns and the functions seem to only want to
>>have 32 parameters?
>>
>>Is there any way around this?
>>
>>I have used stored procedures in this way with Oracle/SQL server before.Or
>>is there another strategy I could use?
>>
>>I am using Windows 2000 Postgres 8.0.1 if it makes a difference
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Oisin
>>
>>
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