On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:06:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at> writes:
> > So it looks like the number of result rows is the least common
> > multiple of the cardinalities of all columns in the select list.
> 
> It's always been that way.  The lack of any obviously-sane way to
> handle multiple SRFs in a targetlist is exactly why the feature is
> looked on with disfavor.

I must be missing something obvious.  Isn't the nested loop thing that
happens with generate_series() pretty sane?

SELECT generate_series(1,2) AS i, generate_series(1,3) AS j;
 i | j 
---+---
 1 | 1
 2 | 2
 1 | 3
 2 | 1
 1 | 2
 2 | 3
(6 rows)

Cheers,
David.
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