Re: Implement targetlist SRFs using ROWS FROM() (was Changed SRF in targetlist handling)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> "Srf" is ugly as can be, and unintelligible.  SetResult might be OK.
>
>> The operation we're performing here, IIUC, is projection.  SetResult
>> lacks a verb, although Set could be confused with one; someone might
>> think this is the node that sets a result, whatever that means.
>> Anyway, I suggest working Project in there somehow.  If Project by
>> itself seems like it's too generic, perhaps ProjectSet or
>> ProjectSetResult would be suitable.
>
> Andres' patch is already using "SetProjectionPath" for the path struct
> type.  Maybe make that "ProjectSetPath", giving rise to a "ProjectSet"
> plan node?

+1.

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