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Re: why can't plpgsql return a row-expression?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Asif Rehman <asifr.rehman@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-06T19:04:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm against putting I/O coercion semantics into tupconvert, period.  Ever.
> If plpgsql wants that behavior rather than something more consistent
> with the rest of the system, it needs to implement it for itself.

I'm sure that can be done.  I don't think anyone is objecting to that,
just trying to get useful behavior out of the system.

Are you going to commit a stripped-down version of the patch?

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Robert Haas
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