On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:01:26PM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:40 PM, David Fetter wrote: > >>> Yes, that's my ideal, but Tom says I need to write C code to get that >>> information from RECORD objects, alas. :-( >> >> Would this be the first C piece? If not, it might be worth doing. > > I don't understand the question.
I was thinking of this as part of PgTAP. > But yes, I think it'd be worth doing. I'd like to have functions > like: > > pg_record_attrs(RECORD) RETURNS SETOF regtype[] > > And maybe another function to return attribute names. If it could > returns both names and types, that'd be cool, but I'm not sure what kind > of data type that would be. It's possible to have it return SETOF RECORD with OUT parameters, I think. > Does this sound interesting to other folks? Sure. Maybe that should go in pg_catalog in 8.5... Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
