2012/5/3 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>> (1 row)
>>>
>>> This works the same indeed, just seems to be a hack, though a cool
>>> one :)
>
> Yeah -- the syntax isn't great, but IMO it's more generally usable
> than what you're proposing because it's a scalar returning function
> not a table expression. Another point is that the proposed 'like'
> syntax (which I still think is great, just maybe not for conversions
> from json) seems wedded to record types. The hstore trick should be
> able to take a foo[], set it all up and return it. How would that
> work with like?
>
>> few years back I proposed "anytypename" type
>>
>> with this feature, you can has some clean and more readable call
>>
>> SELECT * FROM populate_record(test, ...)
>
> that would be great IMO.
I'll try propose it again - implementation should not be hard
Regards
Pavel
>
> merlin