Re: Strange DOMAIN behavior

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Alex Ignatov <a.ignatov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:

DROP FUNCTION lexema_test( );

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION lexema_test()
   RETURNS VOID AS $body$
DECLARE
   lex lexema :=new_lexema();
BEGIN
END;
$body$
LANGUAGE PLPGSQL
SECURITY DEFINER;

Then I got:
ERROR:  default value for row or record variable is not supported
LINE 17:    lex lexema :=new_lexema();

​Undocumented limitation :(

While slightly more verbose you simply need to:

DECLARE lex lexema;

BEGIN

lex := new_lexema();

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David J.

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