2010/10/28 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
> While we were discussing allowing generic record type arguments to plperl
> functions, Tom suggested that we should expose the type information about
> the record members to plperl. I think if we do that we should probably
> expand it somewhat to all arguments, so that for non-trigger functions, we'd
> have $_ARG_INFO while could look something like this:
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> {
> names => ['arg1', undef, 'arg3' ] , # no name was supplied for arg2
> modes => ['in', 'in', 'in' ], # do we support anything other than IN ?
variadic
Pavel
> types => ['integer', 'text', { name => 'somecomposite', fields => [
> 'field1', 'field2' ], types => ['date', 'numeric' ] } ],
> }
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> Maybe we should also pass in type Oid info, too.
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> I don't think this would be terribly difficult to do.
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> thoughts?
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> cheers
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> andrew
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