Re: some possible parser cleaning: drop support column(table) syntax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: some possible parser cleaning: drop support column(table) syntax
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Msg-id 411.1256223483@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: some possible parser cleaning: drop support column(table) syntax  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/10/22 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>>> this is syntax column(table) necessary still?

>> There is no reason to remove that.

> do you know somebody who use it? It is dead code.

It is not --- it's the recommended solution for emulating computed
columns.  The column-as-f(x) direction maybe isn't terribly exciting,
but the function-as-x.col direction definitely is.
        regards, tom lane


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