Re: Schemas vs. PostQUEL: resolving qualified identifiers

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Okay, but then how will you refer unambiguously to the rowtype object?
>
> > What about casting with the keyord ROW?
> > func(ROW table)
> > always refers to the row-type of table "table" even if there is
> > a column called "table".
>
> Strikes me as gratuituously different from the way everything else is
> done. We have .* and %ROWTYPE and so forth, and they're all suffixes.
> The closest analogy to your ROW syntax is CAST, but it doesn't alter the
> initial interpretation of its argument.
>

I didn't mean literally that way, I just wanted to add a keyword for
solving ambiguity (when there is one).

You are right, it should be:

func(table%ROWTYPE)

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