Re: plpgsql - DECLARE - cannot to use %TYPE or %ROWTYPE for composite types

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Artur Zakirov <a(dot)zakirov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Subject: Re: plpgsql - DECLARE - cannot to use %TYPE or %ROWTYPE for composite types
Date: 2016-03-16 15:50:56
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCySh0-7zTb548eh=4v0LwL4yy+5SoOYzcQ33m1tvxGVg@mail.gmail.com
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2016-03-16 16:46 GMT+01:00 Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>:

> On 03/15/2016 05:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In short, I think we should reject this implementation and instead try
> > to implement the type operators we want in the core grammar's Typename
> > production, from which plpgsql will pick it up automatically. That is
> > going to require some other syntax than this. As I said, I'm not
> > particularly pushing the function-like syntax I wrote upthread; but
> > I want to see something that is capable of supporting all those features
> > and can be extended later if we think of other type operators we want.
>
> +1
>
> Anyone want to argue against changing the status of this to Rejected or
> at least Returned with feedback?
>

I would to reduce this patch to fix row type issue. There is not any
disagreement. I'll send reduced patch today.

Any other functionality is not 9.6 topic.

Regards

Pavel

> Joe
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