On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > >> (1 row) >> >> This works the same indeed, just seems to be a hack, though a cool >> one :)
Yeah -- the syntax isn't great, but IMO it's more generally usable than what you're proposing because it's a scalar returning function not a table expression. Another point is that the proposed 'like' syntax (which I still think is great, just maybe not for conversions from json) seems wedded to record types. The hstore trick should be able to take a foo[], set it all up and return it. How would that work with like? > few years back I proposed "anytypename" type > > with this feature, you can has some clean and more readable call > > SELECT * FROM populate_record(test, ...) that would be great IMO. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers