On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:47, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:34:19PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Yes, I think that would be the way to go, or look at the stat functions
> > that return tuple sets and use those. That may be a cleaner solution.
>
> Why is that cleaner?
Cleaner may be the wrong word.
Consistent, follows tradition, more obvious to those who have used
PostgreSQL for a number of years...
Slightly lower learning curve for newbies. Sub-selects in the from
based on functions is not that common. Selecting from tables is :)
Lastly, it'll show up in \dS if it's a sudo table. The function is
buried in thousands of \df results.