On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I've complained many times that
> select (f()).*;
>
> will execute f() once for each returned field of f() since the server
> essentially expands that into:
>
> select f().a, f().b;
>
oh, this is why we expand rows inside a WITH statement.
it should probably be fixed, but you should find something like
WITH fn AS SELECT f(),
SELECT (fn).a, (fn).b
will make your life better
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