Re: need of anonymous record

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Krauss <ppkrauss(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: need of anonymous record
Date: 2014-05-03 14:36:35
Message-ID: 5364FEF3.9030301@dunslane.net
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On 05/03/2014 09:55 AM, Peter Krauss wrote:
> My notion of "anonymous record", and the need of this kind of
> "higher-order type", are discussed in the links below,
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/23439240
> "Functions can not to /return individual items of a record/"
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/21246201
> "PostgreSQL v9.X have real '/array of record/' ?
>
> The first question is about performance: "/returns table/" have the
> same performance than "/returns record/"??
> If "yes", the /record/ datatype is somewhat outdated?

Quite apart from other considerations such as the clear lack of
understanding of semantics here, I at least am not going to follow
threads to stackoverflow. If you want to discuss the actual or desired
semantics of Postgres, the proper place is the Postgres mailing lists.

cheers

andrew

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