| From: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-hackers(at)dynworks(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Again, sorry, caching, (Tom What do you think: function |
| Date: | 2002-03-19 18:51:39 |
| Message-ID: | 3C9788BB.8C923601@mohawksoft.com |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> mlw wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > IMHO modifying the function manager to allow the return of a full row, and a
> > "set of" full rows, answers a LOT of issues I have seen over the years with
> > PostgreSQL extensibility.
>
> Sure. Actually I think you'll have an easy project with this
> one, because all the work has been done by Tom already.
>
> The function manager isn't the problem any more. It is that
> you cannot have such a "set of" function in the rangetable.
> So you have no mechanism to USE the result.
I'm not sure I follow you. OK, maybe I identified the wrong portion of code.
The idea is that the first return value could return an array of varlenas, one
for each column, then a set of varlenas, one for each column.
Is there a way to return this to PostgreSQL?
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