| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Changed SRF in targetlist handling |
| Date: | 2016-05-23 17:35:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20160523173510.GB13838@fetter.org |
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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:10:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This seems a bridge too far to me. It's just way too common to do
> "select generate_series(1,n)". We could tell people they have to
> rewrite to "select * from generate_series(1,n)", but it would be far
> more polite to do that for them.
How about making "TABLE generate_series(1,n)" work? It's even
shorter in exchange for some cognitive load.
Cheers,
David.
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