Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alban Hertroys <dalroi(at)solfertje(dot)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl>
Cc: Jon Smark <jon(dot)smark(at)yahoo(dot)com>, 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 19:21:23
Message-ID: AANLkTikaySpDmSjVM74v-ST_9ZcV2bDJoLtHJPKv688b@mail.gmail.com
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2011/1/13 Alban Hertroys <dalroi(at)solfertje(dot)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl>:
> On 13 Jan 2011, at 19:25, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here, Postgres certainly _does_ support set-returning functions. Maybe you were referring to something in the particular context of the problem the OP is trying to solve?
>

The name of feature "SET RETURNED FUNC" doesn't mean so PostgreSQL
supports SET type in ANSI SQL sense.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> It would be kind of bad if people Google for this topic and would come back with the wrong conclusion.
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> Alban Hertroys
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