On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:18:34PM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
>
> SELECT ('1:2:3:4:5'::text::my_type).*;
>
> This results in the text_to_my_type(text) function being called no less
> than 5 times. Once for each element.
>
> Is this the desired behaviour, or a bug?
It's a known behavior with functions that return composite types.
Apparently it's not easy to fix:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-04/msg00971.php
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Michael Fuhr
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