Re: 7.5 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.5 release notes
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Msg-id 19574.1090822630@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.5 release notes  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:22:21AM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>> In the release not I can read:
>> This allows columns to contain arbitrary composite types
>> like rows from other tables. [SNIPPED]
>> 
>> Wasn't this alread true on 7.4 ?

> No, this is a new feature.  Did you try inserting anything into the
> tables?

Postgres has always accepted this syntax, but it has not done anything
useful in many years, and when it last did do something useful the
semantics were quite a bit different :-(

Elein has standing to bash me about the change of semantics, but I don't
think the rest of you do ...
        regards, tom lane


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