Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows
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In response to Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows  (Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>)
Responses Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows  (Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>)
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2011/1/13 Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>:
> On 13 Jan 2011, at 19:25, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>>> The above does work, thanks.  There is however one drawback: the type
>>> associated with _page.users is now an array.  Is there a way to make
>>> it a 'SETOF user_t'?
>>>
>>
>> no. PostgreSQL doesn't supports SET. Only arrays are supported.
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> I'm not sure what you mean here, Postgres certainly _does_ support set-returning functions. Maybe you were referring
tosomething in the particular context of the problem the OP is trying to solve? 
>

The name of feature "SET RETURNED FUNC" doesn't mean so PostgreSQL
supports SET type in ANSI SQL sense.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> It would be kind of bad if people Google for this topic and would come back with the wrong conclusion.
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> Alban Hertroys
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