On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > For historical reasons PostgreSQL supports calling a function with a single > argument like "column.function", in addition to "function(column)". There is > a function "name(text)" that casts the input to the 'name' datatype, so your > example casts the row to text and from text to name.
I'm starting to wonder if we should think about deprecating this behavior. It is awfully confusing and unintuitive. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
