Re: need of anonymous record - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: need of anonymous record
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Msg-id 5364FEF3.9030301@dunslane.net
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In response to need of anonymous record  (Peter Krauss <ppkrauss@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 05/03/2014 09:55 AM, Peter Krauss wrote:
> My notion of "anonymous record", and the need of this kind of 
> "higher-order type", are discussed in the links below,
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/23439240
>   "Functions can not to /return individual items of a record/"
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/21246201
>   "PostgreSQL v9.X have real '/array of record/' ?
>
> The first question is about performance: "/returns table/" have the 
> same performance than "/returns record/"??
> If "yes", the /record/ datatype is somewhat outdated?

Quite apart from other considerations such as the clear lack of 
understanding of semantics here, I at least am not going to follow 
threads to stackoverflow. If you want to discuss the actual or desired 
semantics of Postgres, the proper place is the Postgres mailing lists.

cheers

andrew




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