"Thomas Chille" <thomas@chille.de> writes: > in every documentation(7.5 too) i can read that i can pass a row to a > plpgsql function. but how u know it does not work. It does work ... from a SQL statement. The problem you are running into is that a whole-row variable of a plpgsql function can't be passed as a unit into a SQL statement. (I thought this limitation was documented somewhere in the plpgsql chapter, but right at the moment I can't find anything about it.) > And if the documentation is wrong, is this normal for the postgres-docs? The documentation is not perfect. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)