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Say I have the following postgreSQL composite type:

CREATE TYPE myType AS(
  id  bigint,
  name  text,
);

and a stored procedure that excepts that type:

CREATE FUNCTION myFunction(mt myType){
//do some stuff
}

I would like to call this procedure from Node-js using node-postgres module.

var pg = require('pg');
var connectionString = "connection string";
pg.connect(connectionString, function(err, client, done) {
   client.query('SELECT myFunction($1)', [some value],   
      function(err, result) {
      // do stuff
      done();
    });
});

How do i create such a type in JS? Is there a way to pass a type from Node to a Postgres stored procedure?

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After some more work i found a solution to this problem.

var pg = require('pg');
var connectionString = "connection string";

var myType = [
  12345,
  'you'
];
pg.connect(connectionString, function(err, client, done) {
   client.query('SELECT myFunction($1::myType)', 
     ['(' + myType.join(',') + ')' ],   
     function(err, result) {
      // do stuff
    done();
   });
});

The join will return this: 12345,you. When adding the bracts it will create a string that will look like this '(12345,'you')', in the Postgres DB it will get cast to myType.

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