2010/12/11 Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org>: > On Dec11, 2010, at 06:20 , Pavel Stehule wrote: >> I wrote a few functions for record type - record_expand, >> record_get_fields, record_get_field, record_set_fields. > > Just FYI, I've created something similar a while ago. The code can be found at > https://github.com/fgp/pg_record_inspect > > The main difference seems to be that my code allows you to retrieve fields > from a record without casting it to text. As a consequence, however, it lacks > the set-returning functions that your's provides. It also doesn't provide a > way to modify fields.
Casting to text is necessary for PL/pgSQL. I am not happy from this, but there are not other way than using a common type - text - because you don't know a target type. > > Still, maybe we could join efforts here? I certain would *love* to see > something like this either as a contrib module or in core. > I'll look on your module, Regards Pavel Stehule > best regards, > Florian Pflug > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
