Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs

On 08/19/2013 09:23 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> 
> Indeed, it's a big nail in the coffin for SRFs-in-targetlist. Having
> WITH ORDINALITY and this feature, I would vote for removing
> SRF-in-targetlist and call the release PostgreSQL 10.0.

That's not realistic.   We'd have to deprecate that syntax and
repeatedly and loudly warn people about it for at least 3 years after
the release of 9.3.   You're talking about asking people to refactor
hundreds or thousands of lines of code which makes current use of things
like regex_match() in the target list.

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