On ons, 2012-05-02 at 13:40 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> How hard would it be to add support for LIKE syntax, similar to table
> def in field list declaration for generic record functions
>
> What I'dd like to be able to do is to have a generic json_to_record
> function
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE RECORD json_to_record(json) RETURNS RECORD AS $$
> ...
> $$ LANGUAGE ... ;
>
> and then be able to call it like this
>
> insert into test2
> select * from json_to_record(jrec json) as (like test2);
That would be very useful, and shouldn't be too hard to implement. (I
had to look about three times to understand what this was supposed to
achieve, but I think the syntax is the right one after all.)
