Daniele Varrazzo wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> I have updated the patch, attached, to clarify that this returns text > >> arrays, and that you can force it to always return one row using > >> COALESCE() and a '|' pattern (the later suggested by Daniele Varrazzo). > > > > I don't find this part to be something we should include in the > > documentation. ?If we want to include a workaround, how about defining > > a non-SRF that just calls the SRF and returns the first row? > > I think a documentation correction could be backported without problem > to all the currently maintained version of PostgreSQL (which would be > of good google value, as very often google searches lands you to > previous releases doc pages), whereas a easier to use function would > be a new feature and as such could only be introduced in 9.0 or even > 9.1.
While you might have had this problem, it is not a common problem so not something we are about to take tons of time addressing. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
