Re: function in a view

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:58:53PM -0400, Keith Worthington wrote:
>
>>I have created a function that extracts three parts of a string using plperl.
>> Now I want to use those parts in a view and I don't even know where to start.
>
>
> Here's a simple example that might provide inspiration.  It works
> in PostgreSQL 8.0.2:
>
> CREATE TYPE testtype AS (
>     a  text,
>     b  text,
>     c  text
> );
>
> CREATE FUNCTION testfunc(text) RETURNS testtype AS $$
> my @s = split(/:/, $_[0]);
> return {a => $s[0], b => $s[1], c => $s[2]};
> $$ LANGUAGE plperl IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> CREATE TABLE foo (id serial, t text);
> INSERT INTO foo (t) VALUES ('abc:def:ghi');
>
> SELECT id, t, testfunc(t) FROM foo;
>  id |      t      |   testfunc
> ----+-------------+---------------
>   1 | abc:def:ghi | (abc,def,ghi)
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT id, t, (testfunc(t)).* FROM foo;
>  id |      t      |  a  |  b  |  c
> ----+-------------+-----+-----+-----
>   1 | abc:def:ghi | abc | def | ghi
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT id, t,
>        'A: ' || (testfunc(t)).a AS col_a,
>        'B: ' || (testfunc(t)).b AS col_b,
>        'C: ' || (testfunc(t)).c AS col_c
> FROM foo;
>  id |      t      | col_a  | col_b  | col_c
> ----+-------------+--------+--------+--------
>   1 | abc:def:ghi | A: abc | B: def | C: ghi
> (1 row)
>

I am out of the office today so I won't be able to play with this idea
for a while but it looks interesting.

It seems like what your saying is that by enclosing the function in a
set of parentheses I can access the return elements.

I can't wait to try this.

Thanks tons for the guidance.  I will let you know how I make out.

--
Kind Regards,
Keith