Re: Null row vs. row of nulls in plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Null row vs. row of nulls in plpgsql
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Msg-id 19114.1222549249@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Null row vs. row of nulls in plpgsql  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Referring again to my favorite ordinary programming language python, you
> can have a very elegant way of assigning a "record" (a tuple in
> pythonese) to a set of variables and vice versa

There are already perfectly good ways to do that in plpgsql, vizrowvar := row(x,y,z);select rowvar.* into x,y,z;
        regards, tom lane


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