Re: embedded composite types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Arturo Guadagnin <tuirutuiru(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: embedded composite types
Date: 2021-02-20 15:58:21
Message-ID: 3196308.1613836701@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Saturday, February 20, 2021, Arturo Guadagnin <tuirutuiru(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> I’m just wondering whether this is the expected behaviour or if there is
>> any syntactical magic I’m not aware of ....

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-expressions.html#FIELD-SELECTION

Yeah. Also note that we only recently got around to fixing plpgsql
assignment to allow nested fields; that is

declare p Point2;
...
p.pt1.x = 42;

works in HEAD but not in any released version.

regards, tom lane

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