Re: Polymorphic arguments and composite types

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Polymorphic arguments and composite types
Date: 2007-10-05 17:53:03
Message-ID: 1191606783.4223.430.camel@ebony.site
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:32 -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> > Because we already do exactly that here:
> >
> > select 1, (select col2 from c), 3;
> >
> > The inner select returns a ROW, yet we treat it as a single column
> > value.
>
> The inner select does not return a row. It's not a <row subquery>, it's a
> <scalar subquery>.

Thanks Stephan, Tom already explained that.

My comments above were in response to "Why would you think that?"

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Simon Riggs
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