Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs

From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs
Date: 2013-08-19 18:19:14
Message-ID: 521261A2.6000403@cybertec.at
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2013-08-19 20:03 keltezéssel, Josh Berkus írta:
> On 08/19/2013 09:23 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> Indeed, it's a big nail in the coffin for SRFs-in-targetlist. Having
>> WITH ORDINALITY and this feature, I would vote for removing
>> SRF-in-targetlist and call the release PostgreSQL 10.0.
> That's not realistic.

I know. I am such an agent provocateur. :-)

> We'd have to deprecate that syntax and
> repeatedly and loudly warn people about it for at least 3 years after
> the release of 9.3. You're talking about asking people to refactor
> hundreds or thousands of lines of code which makes current use of things
> like regex_match() in the target list.
>

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