Re: Creating a new type

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Rodrigo Sakai" <rodrigo(dot)sakai(at)zanthus(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
>   So, when I execute an INSERT operation on this table, the functions that
> deals with this type need the id or name of the table that the data was
> inserted!

Why?  Your example datatype doesn't seem to require any such thing.

>   How can I get this ID or NAME inside this functions??? 

You can't.  The question itself is bogus because it assumes that data
values only exist within tables.  You could not have a transient value
of the datatype (eg, a function result) because that is not stored in
any table.

			regards, tom lane