Re: How hard would it be to support LIKE in return declaration of generic record function calls ?

On ons, 2012-05-02 at 13:40 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> How hard would it be to add support for LIKE syntax, similar to table
> def in field list declaration for generic record functions
> 
> What I'dd like to be able to do is to have a generic json_to_record
> function 
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE RECORD json_to_record(json) RETURNS RECORD AS $$
> ...
> $$ LANGUAGE ... ;
> 
> and then be able to call it like this
> 
> insert into test2 
> select * from json_to_record(jrec json) as (like test2);

That would be very useful, and shouldn't be too hard to implement.  (I
had to look about three times to understand what this was supposed to
achieve, but I think the syntax is the right one after all.)