Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2017-01-24 21:32:56 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> XMLTABLE is specified by the standard to return multiple rows ... but
>> then as far as my reading goes, it is only supposed to be supported in
>> the range table (FROM clause) not in the target list. I wonder if
>> this would end up better if we only tried to support it in RT. I asked
>> Pavel to implement it like that a few weeks ago, but ...
> Right - it makes sense in the FROM list - but then it should be an
> executor node, instead of some expression thingy.
+1 --- we're out of the business of having simple expressions that
return rowsets.
regards, tom lane
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