Re: Functions returning sets

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Functions returning sets
Date: 2001-05-20 17:55:25
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0105201054080.53774-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> > I think what we should probably do is make IN better and use that or then
> > support =ANY(=SOME)/=ALL on such things. I think =ANY would be easy
> > since IN is defined in terms of it in the spec.
>
> And in our code too ;-). ANY/ALL have been there for awhile.

:) Well that makes it easier anyway. I do agree with the point that at
some point IN needs to be smarter. Can the IN always get written as a
join and is it always better to do so?

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