Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jon Smark <jon(dot)smark(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows
Date: 2011-01-13 18:25:04
Message-ID: AANLkTikAL4=fasCBa44EgXUd23vW+B5JRDVzZy2UtEoL@mail.gmail.com
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2011/1/13 Jon Smark <jon(dot)smark(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> Hi,
>
>> That is certainly not going to work: that select does not produce an
>> array, it produces a column of user_t (of which SELECT INTO is only
>> gonna take the first, anyway).
>>
>> Untested, but I think you'd have better results with
>>
>>     _page.users := array(select users from users limit 10);
>
> The above does work, thanks.  There is however one drawback: the type
> associated with _page.users is now an array.  Is there a way to make
> it a 'SETOF user_t'?
>

no. PostgreSQL doesn't supports SET. Only arrays are supported.

Regards

Pavel

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> Jon
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