Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>  >> The unnest() implementation is largely unrelated to the standard
>  >> one, which is impossible to provide without LATERAL.
> 
>  Bruce> I removed the duplicate item; we can add more details about
>  Bruce> what additional functionality we need once we get user
>  Bruce> feedback.
> 
> The missing functionality from the spec is:
> 
> 1) select ... from foo, unnest(foo.bar);   -- UNNEST is implicitly LATERAL
> 
> 2) multiple arrays:  select * from unnest(a,b);
> 
> 3) expansion of composite arrays: unnest(a) should return as many
> columns as there are in the elements of a, not just one composite
> column
> 
> 4) WITH ORDINALITY - adds a column to the result with the array index
> 
> It's point (1) that's the killer - without it, unnest() is just a
> trivial shorthand for stuff that can be done anyway; it doesn't
> actually add any functionality.

OK, so what should the TODO wording be?

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