Re: plpgsql - DECLARE - cannot to use %TYPE or %ROWTYPE for composite types

2016-03-16 16:46 GMT+01:00 Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>:

On 03/15/2016 05:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> In short, I think we should reject this implementation and instead try
> to implement the type operators we want in the core grammar's Typename
> production, from which plpgsql will pick it up automatically.  That is
> going to require some other syntax than this.  As I said, I'm not
> particularly pushing the function-like syntax I wrote upthread; but
> I want to see something that is capable of supporting all those features
> and can be extended later if we think of other type operators we want.

+1

Anyone want to argue against changing the status of this to Rejected or
at least Returned with feedback?

I would to reduce this patch to fix row type issue. There is not any disagreement. I'll send reduced patch today.

Any other functionality is not 9.6 topic.

Regards

Pavel

Joe

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