On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > On 05/03/2012 09:43 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> > > You guys seem to be taking the original proposal off into the weeds. I have > often wanted to be able to use LIKE in type expressions, and I'd like to see > exactly that implemented.
would it work for array types? can it called without using FROM? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
