On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: >> 2011/10/11 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> What do you think about this idea? > > It's a bad one. > >>> Well, a ROW can contain values of different types; an ARRAY can't. > >> yes, I know - but it should be problem only in few cases - when is not >> possible to cast a row field to array field. > > This idea is basically the same as "data types don't matter", which is > not SQL-ish and certainly not Postgres-ish.
hm. I agree, but if it were possible to create sql/plpgsql functions accepting 'record', then you could at least rig the cast in userland around hstore without resorting to hacky text manipulation and/or flattening the record to text before doing the operation. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
