| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions. |
| Date: | 2015-07-29 14:48:36 |
| Message-ID: | 29042.1438181316@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> Let's pursue the "CAST(srf() AS row_rtype)" syntax that Joe suggested
>> upthread (
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/559A9643.9070409@joeconway.com). For
>> some reason, the discussion went on around the details of the submitted
>> patch after that, even though everyone seemed to prefer the CAST() syntax.
> I'm all for adding that syntax, but it wouldn't be useful for my purposes
> unless row_rtype could be a variable, and my understanding is that it can't.
Not sure why inserting a variable name is so much better than inserting a
type name?
regards, tom lane
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