Re: Inspection of row types in pl/pgsql and pl/sql

"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Ok, I must be missing something. I currently fail to see how
> my proposed
>    record_value(record, name, anyelement) returns anyelement
> function differs (from the type system's point of view) from
>    value_from_string(text, anyelement) returns anyelement
> which simply casts the text value to the given type and can easily be
> implemented in plpgsq.

The problem is at the call site --- if you try to call it with different
record types on different calls you're going to get a failure.
Or so I expect anyway.
        regards, tom lane