Re: Inconsistent Errors on Row Comparisons

[David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:01:26PM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:40 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>
>>> Yes, that's my ideal, but Tom says I need to write C code to get that
>>> information from RECORD objects, alas. :-(
>>
>> Would this be the first C piece?  If not, it might be worth doing.
>
> I don't understand the question.

I was thinking of this as part of PgTAP.

> But yes, I think it'd be worth doing.  I'd like to have functions
> like:
>
>     pg_record_attrs(RECORD) RETURNS SETOF regtype[]
>
> And maybe another function to return attribute names. If it could  
> returns both names and types, that'd be cool, but I'm not sure what kind 
> of data type that would be.

It's possible to have it return SETOF RECORD with OUT parameters, I
think.

> Does this sound interesting to other folks?

Sure.  Maybe that should go in pg_catalog in 8.5...

Cheers,
David.
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