On Dec13, 2010, at 08:23 , Pavel Stehule wrote: > There is a second possibility - and hardly simpler. We can use a > specialised statement with own parser/executor node. Then > implementation should be really simply > > syntax: > > EXTRACT_VALUE(expr1 FROM expr2 AS typename) ... RETURNS typename
In principle, that looks nice. I'm fairly certain, however, that any proposal that adds special syntax just for this will very like get shot down quickly, so I don't really want to go there. However, I've just had an epiphany I think. Why not copy a page out of dblink's book, and make it select * from record_get(<record>, <field1>, ..., <fieldn>) as (field varchar, value <type>) The result would be field | value (varchar) | (<type>) -------------------- field1 | value1 ... fieldn | valuen If value1 ... value_n are able to be casted to <type>, and an error otherwise. If dblink is able to pull that off, so should we, or am I missing something? 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
