Re: Versionning (was: Whole-row comparison)

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:07:46PM +0300, christian(dot)roche(dot)ext(at)nsn(dot)com wrote:
> I've contemplated reusing an awful hack from my Access era, namely using
> a single-rowed table to store the parameter and joining the view on it.
> The parameter would be updated before the view is called; this would
> work but would definitely be ugly. Can someone think of a better way to
> do that ?

I sort of don't see how that hack would be any different from a SRF.
You'd lose the planner benefits anyway, I think, because you'd have
to plan for the generic case where the data could be anything, no?

A

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