From: | "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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To: | "Abraham, Danny *EXTERN*" <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Instaltiating an ARRAY within a function |
Date: | 2007-12-12 16:00:39 |
Message-ID: | D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C2AE0A1B@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Danny Abraham wrote:
> ===========================================
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arr( inout x varchar[] )
> AS
> $Z$
> DECLARE
> i integer;
> BEGIN
> select ARRAY['Danny','Eissam','Moshe'] into x;
> end;
> $Z$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
> ===========================================
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION callarr()
> returns integer
> AS
> $Z$
> DECLARE
> x varchar[6];
> BEGIN
> perform arr(x);
> RAISE NOTICE 'x[1]=%',x[1];
> return 0;
> end;
> $Z$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
> ===========================================
>
> select callarr();
> NOTICE: x[1]=<NULL> ??? Should have been DANNY
>
>
> Should it work?
Not the way you wrote it.
You are confused by output parameters which do not work the way one
might expect. They are just a simple syntax for composite return types.
CREATE FUNCTION arr(INOUT x varchar[])
is synonymous to
CREATE FUNCTION arr(x varchar[]) RETURNS varchar[]
So your example should work if you replace
PERFORM arr(x);
with
x := arr(x);
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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