Re: Typing Records

On 08/23/2010 08:33 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I've been trying to come up with a simpler way to iterate over a
> series of values in pgTAP tests than by creating a table, inserting
> rows, and then selecting from the table. The best I've come up with
> so far is:

<snip>

> Aside from that, might there be another way to do this without an
> explicit composite type? Maybe with VALUES() or something?

Maybe something like this?

select cmp_ok(a,b,c)
from
(
values('1.2.2'::varchar, '='::text, '1.2.2'::varchar),
('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23'),
('1.2.42', '=', '1.2.32')
) as ss(a, b, c);
cmp_ok
--------
t
t
f
(3 rows)

HTH,

Joe

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