Re: gset updated patch

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-11-19T16:12:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
> Yes. I'm wrong.  For some reason I thought you could use DO to make
> an anonymous code block that would act as a SETOF function,
> allowing RETURN NEXT expr (et-al) to be used in the
> plpgsql code, allowing DO to return table results.
> (Or, perhaps, instead, be used in place of a table in a SELECT
> statement.)  Oh well.

My key for remembering about that point is that DO is a utility command,
not a query. Now, the proposal I pushed last time we opened that very
can of worms was to have inline functions rather than anonymous code
blocks:

   WITH FUNCTION foo(integer) returns bigint language SQL AS $$
    SELECT $1 + 1;
   $$,

Not sure how much that relates to $topic, but still something that
raises in my mind with enough presence that I need to write about it so
that it stops calling for attention :)
   
Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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