Re: Record with a field consisting of table rows

2011/1/13 Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>:
> On 13 Jan 2011, at 20:21, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>>> I'm not sure what you mean here, Postgres certainly _does_ support set-returning functions. Maybe you were
referringto something in the particular context of the problem the OP is trying to solve? 
>>>
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>> The name of feature "SET RETURNED FUNC" doesn't mean so PostgreSQL
>> supports SET type in ANSI SQL sense.
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> I think this is getting off topic, but I don't understand what you're trying to say here. That's probably partially
dueto your odd usage of the word "so" - I think you mean to use it as "that" (which it doesn't mean), and not as
"because"(which its meaning is much closer to). 
> You might also want to elaborate a bit more so that people have enough context to work around your grammar ;)
>
> Anyway, are you saying:
> 1. PostgreSQL doesn't support SRF's (It does though)? Or that,
> 2. ANSI SQL doesn't support SRF's? Or that
> 3. PostgreSQL's implementation of SRF's is not compatible with the ANSI SQL definition?
>

sorry, my English isn't good. A problem is in meaning of keyword
"SET". ANSI SQL knows a datatype "SET". This datatype isn't supported
by pg. A SRF functions are called table functions in ANSI SQL. But I
can be messed

Pavel



> Or something entirely different?
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> Alban Hertroys
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