Re: Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, strk(at)keybit(dot)net
Subject: Re: Dyamic updates of NEW with pl/pgsql
Date: 2010-03-12 18:47:45
Message-ID: 20100312184744.GD15080@fetter.org
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:35:41PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2010/3/12 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
> >
> > This is, by the way, an excellent argument for including hstore in
> > core in 9.1. :)
>
> I like it - but it looking little bit strange - I thinking we need
> only one function (maybe with some special support from pl executor)
>
> begin
> update_field(NEW, 'field', value);
> ....

This doesn't seem like a terribly useful addition, it being specific
to PL/pgsql. Then there's the quoting issue, which the above doesn't
quite address. Putting hstore in would let all the other PLs use it,
to the extent that they need such a thing. :)

Cheers,
David.
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