Re: Review: UNNEST (and other functions) WITH ORDINALITY

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If it weren't that we've been speculating for years about deprecating
>> SRFs-in-tlists once we had LATERAL, I would personally consider this
>> patch DOA in this form.

> I guess I'd sort of assumed that the plan was to continue accepting
> SRFs in tlists but rewrite them as lateral joins, rather than getting
> rid of them altogether.

That seems to me to be unlikely to happen, because it would be
impossible to preserve the current (admittedly bad) semantics.
If we're going to change the behavior at all we might as well just
drop the feature, IMO.
        regards, tom lane