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Re: Anonymous code block with parameters

Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>
To: Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Kalyanov Dmitry <kalyanov.dmitry@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-09-18T22:14:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 09/18/2014 10:40 PM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> On 2014-09-18 10:29 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 09/18/2014 10:16 PM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>>> I guess it proves (a little) that WITH is the right place to do these
>>> kind of things ...
>>
>> I've been wanting this syntax for a few years now, so I certainly vote
>> for it.
>
> I've also been wanting do to something like:
>
>   WITH mytyp AS (a int, b int, c int)
>   SELECT (tup).* FROM
>   (
>     SELECT CASE WHEN .. THEN ROW(1,2,3)::mytyp
>             WHEN .. THEN ROW(2,3,4)
>             ELSE ROW (3,4,5) END AS tup
>     FROM ..
>   ) ss
+1
>
>
> .marko
>
>