Re: (SETOF) RECORD AS complex_type

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:22:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The problem with that is that "AS foo" already has a meaning, and it's
> >> not this one.
> 
> > How about "AS (foo)" ?
> 
> What if you want to specify an alias?  This doesn't work:
> 
>     FROM myverylongfunctionname(...) AS alias(typename)
> 
> because, again, that syntax already has a meaning.

Oops.

> You could possibly do something with a cast:
> 
>     FROM CAST(myfunc(...) AS typename) [ AS alias ]

Works for me.

> This is at least syntactically OK.  Not sure what the implementation
> issues might be.

I'm not finding any CASTs from RECORD right offhand.  Where might
those be?

Cheers,
D
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