Re: SQL: table function support

David Fetter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:03 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > this patch add support of table functions syntax like ANSI SQL
> > 2003.
> 
> I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but I wonder if we really need
> *more* syntax variants for declaring set-returning functions. The
> existing patchwork of features is confusing enough as it is...

The way we declare set-returning functions ranges from odd to
byzantine.  A clear, easy-to-understand syntax (even if it's just
sugar over something else) like Pavel's would go a long way toward
getting developers actually to use them.

Cheers,
David.
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