How to pass a record to a PL/pgSQL function?

Question

I have 8 similar PL/pgSQL functions; they are used as INSTEAD OF INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers on views to make them writable. The views each combine columns of

Answer 1

Basically you can convert a record to a hstore variable and pass the hstore variable instead of a record variable to a function. You convert record to hstore i.e. so:

DECLARE r record; h hstore;
h = hstore(r);

Your helper function should also be changed so:

CREATE FUNCTION insert_thing (new_thing hstore) RETURNS INTEGER AS $fun$
DECLARE
    inserted_id  INT;
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO things (name) VALUES (
        new_thing -> 'name'
        -- (plus 30 more columns)
    ) RETURNING id INTO inserted_id;
    RETURN inserted_id;
END;
$fun$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

And the call:

inserted_id = insert_thing(hstore(NEW));

hope it helps