On Feb 10, 2008 3:50 AM, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> NOTICE: (1,two,"Sat 09 Feb 16:47:44.514503 2008")
> INSERT 0 0
>
I think what you're seeing is the syntax for row literals.
You can get an idea of how it looks without having to write trigger
functions, e.g.:
> select row(1, 'second value', current_timestamp); row
-----------------------------------(1,"second value","2008-02-10 04:00:54.458647+11")
(1 row)
Note that anything which includes spaces, commas or brackets is double-quoted.
You can see it working the other way around by constructing a record
using the literal syntax.
=> create type foo as (a text, b int);
CREATE TYPE
=> select '("one", 2)'::foo; foo
---------(one,2)
(1 row)
Cheers,
BJ
