Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
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> On 02/22/2015 10:26 PM, Corey Huinker wrote:
>> Changes in this patch: - added polymorphic versions of
>> dblink_fetch() - upped dblink version # to 1.2 because of new
>> functions - migration 1.1 -> 1.2 - DocBook changes for dblink(),
>> dblink_get_result(), dblink_fetch()
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> The previous patch was missing dblink--1.1--1.2.sql and
> dblink--1.2.sql. I have added them, so it should apply cleanly against
> git master, but not done any actual review yet.

This extension format is still incorrect, as there is no need for
dblink--1.1.sql as on the latest version of an extension needs to be
supported, and Makefile needs to be updated in consequence. Please
find attached an updated patch.

+-- fetch using anyelement, which will change the column names
 SELECT *
-FROM dblink_fetch('rmt_foo_cursor',4) AS t(a int, b text, c text[]);
- a | b |     c
----+---+------------
- 4 | e | {a4,b4,c4}
- 5 | f | {a5,b5,c5}
- 6 | g | {a6,b6,c6}
- 7 | h | {a7,b7,c7}
+FROM dblink_fetch('rmt_foo_cursor',4,null::foo) AS t;
+ f1 | f2 |     f3
+----+----+------------
+  4 | e  | {a4,b4,c4}
+  5 | f  | {a5,b5,c5}
+  6 | g  | {a6,b6,c6}
+  7 | h  | {a7,b7,c7}
 (4 rows)

Why isn't this test case not left alone? It looks like a regression to
me to not test it.
Regards,
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Michael