| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Raymond Brinzer <ray(dot)brinzer(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Records, Types, and Arrays |
| Date: | 2023-05-19 12:23:19 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYA-Q0rOS5d8RWM0t-kpTiE4Ka7KmF0OUBfWxeGD=N81g@mail.gmail.com |
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The convention here is to inline or, at worse, bottom post, trimming
irrelevant context.
On Friday, May 19, 2023, Raymond Brinzer <ray(dot)brinzer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing that row() isn't really a function, then? And even so,
> assuming this is the important difference, how is the ability to change row
> structure on the fly making the cast possible? In what way would the query
> calling get_row() be critical?
>
Row() is pure syntax. It distinguishes (col) vs. row(col) where the first
is just a column in parentheses and the second is a composite with one
column member.
David J.
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