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From: browne@cs.utk.edu
Subject: string argument to user-defined function
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Does anyone know how to send a string as an argument to a user-defined function?
(e.g., the following example on p. 17 of the Postgres User Manual

  * retrieve (emp.all)
        where overpaid2(emp,dept,"bill",8) \g

  bool
  overpaid2(emp, dept, name, number)
      TUPLE emp, dept;
      char *name;
      long number;

My question is how does one declare the third argument above in the define
function statement?  Using char16 gives a type mismatch error message when
the function is called.

Shirley Browne
Research Associate
University of Tennessee
Computer Science Department
107 Ayres Hall
Knoxville, TN  37996-1301
(615) 974-3547
browne@cs.utk.edu