| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Special column trivia |
| Date: | 2010-06-10 22:00:35 |
| Message-ID: | 201006102200.o5AM0Zq14165@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > What got me reading that section was a rather weird documentation
> > question/addition from Edmund Horner. He noted that the following works
> > on PG8.4 and 9.0:
>
> > postgres=# select (row(1,2)).name;
>
> This is the cast-a-composite-type-to-string-type issue that's come up in
> several guises before, eg most recently at
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-05/msg01126.php
Do we need additional documentation?
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