2012/5/3 Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com>: > 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.
I'll try propose it again - implementation should not be hard Regards Pavel > > merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
