Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proposal sql: labeled function params
Date: 2008-08-18 15:25:57
Message-ID: 603c8f070808180825t2caf2d91sbc426206686bb98e@mail.gmail.com
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There may be a TODO in this thread somewhere, but I think this
particular suggestion has drifted pretty far from the problem that
Pavel was trying to solve.

...Robert

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Is this a TODO?
>
>> > >> it's not possible in plpgsql, because we are not able iterate via record.
>> > >
>> > > just add function for iterating over record :)
>> >
>> > it's not easy, when iterating should be fast - when record's field has
>> > different types, than isn't possible cache execution plan.
>>
>> the iterator should convert them to some common type like TEXT

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