no documentation for (compval).* field selection - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject no documentation for (compval).* field selection
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Msg-id 1286269105.16817.8.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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I couldn't find any documentation for using .* to select all fields
(attributes) of a composite type value, e.g.,

CREATE TYPE comp_t AS (intval integer, textval varchar(32));
CREATE TABLE t4 (compval comp_t);
SELECT (compval).* FROM t4;

The only place this is used is in the hstore documentation.

Would it be appropriate to document this in section "4.2.4. Field
Selection", or is this a special case of some other construct that is
already documented?



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