From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: (SETOF) RECORD AS complex_type |
Date: | 2006-12-27 23:40:58 |
Message-ID: | 20061227234058.GF22284@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:22:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The problem with that is that "AS foo" already has a meaning, and it's
> >> not this one.
>
> > How about "AS (foo)" ?
>
> What if you want to specify an alias? This doesn't work:
>
> FROM myverylongfunctionname(...) AS alias(typename)
>
> because, again, that syntax already has a meaning.
Oops.
> You could possibly do something with a cast:
>
> FROM CAST(myfunc(...) AS typename) [ AS alias ]
Works for me.
> This is at least syntactically OK. Not sure what the implementation
> issues might be.
I'm not finding any CASTs from RECORD right offhand. Where might
those be?
Cheers,
D
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