| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How hard would it be to support LIKE in return declaration of generic record function calls ? |
| Date: | 2012-05-03 13:31:17 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0yuZhaHOmTk+LZyR__jNXy3zNAhZk4EiFoVX+r98miLpg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>> (1 row)
>>
>> This works the same indeed, just seems to be a hack, though a cool
>> one :)
Yeah -- the syntax isn't great, but IMO it's more generally usable
than what you're proposing because it's a scalar returning function
not a table expression. Another point is that the proposed 'like'
syntax (which I still think is great, just maybe not for conversions
from json) seems wedded to record types. The hstore trick should be
able to take a foo[], set it all up and return it. How would that
work with like?
> few years back I proposed "anytypename" type
>
> with this feature, you can has some clean and more readable call
>
> SELECT * FROM populate_record(test, ...)
that would be great IMO.
merlin
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