Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs
Date: 2013-08-14 00:22:06
Message-ID: 520ACDAE.6090404@agliodbs.com
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On 08/13/2013 06:54 AM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> Summary:
>
> This patch implements a method for expanding multiple SRFs in parallel
> that does not have the surprising LCM behaviour of SRFs-in-select-list.
> (Functions returning fewer rows are padded with nulls instead.)

BTW, if anyone is unsure of the use-case for this, I have some uses for it:

1. denormalized data stored in same-length arrays (usually for
compression reasons)

2. use with PL/Python-Numpy and PL/R functions which return multiple
arrays or 2D arrays.

In other words, I have *lots* of uses for this functionality, and I
think the analytics crowd will like it. Which means that I need to get
on testing it, of course ...

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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