Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-06-17 21:09:25 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
>> At 2014-06-17 11:32:37 -0400, bruce@momjian.us wrote:
>>> Uh, what is replacing SRFs? CTEs?
>> I don't think Tom was referring to SRFs in general, only putting them
>> directly into the targetlist of a SELECT.
> And the primary reason for using SRFs in the targetlist has gone away
> due to LATERAL.
Exactly. LATERAL does what you usually want from a SRF in the
targetlist, and it doesn't have bizarre semantics when you use more than
one.
regards, tom lane