Re: New.* and old.* as function arguments within rules - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 12/03/2005 10:29:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
> > 2nd, nowhere have I found a NEW.* syntax (as written).

> In general, "foo.*" where foo is a visible table alias is meaningful
> anywhere that a rowtype value would be accepted.  There is a special
> case at the top level of a SELECT result list, where it will be broken
> apart into a list of foo's component fields because the SQL spec says
> so.

Thanks very much.  I had just started writing 'foo' because I didn't
know about 'foo.*' and it's been working so far (8.0.3) but
would _hate_ to have it break on upgrade.

This is the first time I've found the Postgres documentation to be
really lacking.  I suppose there has to be a first.
(Very sorry, _wway_ to busy to write a doc patch.)

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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