Re: Calling function from VFP changes character field to Memo

On 11/15/22 10:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Cazabon <frank(dot)cazabon(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

>
>> Any idea what I need to do to get it to return the character(30) type?
>
> There's no chance of getting back the "30" part with this structure,
> because function signatures do not carry length restrictions.
> What I expect is happening is that you get firstname as an
> unspecified-length "character" type, and something on the client
> side is deciding to cope with that by calling it "Memo" instead.

My experience is that frameworks 'see' ::text as Memo/Textarea and
::char/varchar as Input.

>
> You could perhaps work around that by defining a named composite
> type:
>
> create type testfunction_result as (firstname character(30), ...);
>
> create function testfunction() returns setof testfunction_result as ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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