AW: Anyone particularly wedded to func_tlist mechanism?

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: AW: Anyone particularly wedded to func_tlist mechanism?
Date: 2000-08-07 16:15:59
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368043@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > If I remember correctly,this has been only in case of SQL functions.
>
> True, the tlist is ignored except in SQL functions --- another reason
> why attaching it to all function nodes is a waste. I believe that's
> itself a bug, since it seems like PL functions ought to be capable
> of returning tuples (whether they actually can or not is
> another story,
> but it sure seems like plpgsql ought to be close to being able to).
> By separating the fieldselect operation into another node, we can fix
> that bug too, since it wouldn't matter what the function's
> implementation language is.

Sounds like a huge win !

Andreas

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