way to pass NEW into function

What I did in a similar trigger was set a variable (of type RECORD) to
NEW and then use that.

(I actually used the appropriate fields, but record should... work)

LER

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On 7/10/01, 4:22:34 PM, Mike Cianflone <mcianflone@littlefeet-inc.com>
wrote regarding [HACKERS] way to pass NEW into function:

Is it possible to trick pg/sql to allow passing of the NEW record
into a function? I've got a trigger that gets kicked off before an insert
and I need to call another function and pass that record in, but doing a
perform activate_event(NEW); /* my function is activate_event(OPAQUE) */

only spits out "ERROR: NEW used in non-rule query". Is there a way to

trick