On 07/30/2012 01:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> My feeling is that SRFs in targetlists are just fundamentally poorly
> defined, and the answer is to avoid them not try to make them cleaner.
> Most of the real use-cases for them could be handled in a
> better-defined, more standard way with LATERAL ... so what we ought
> to be spending time on is getting LATERAL done, not worrying about
> putting lipstick on tlist SRFs.
>
>
+1
LATERAL would be useful for all sorts of reasons anyway.
cheers
andrew