On 12/03/2005 10:29:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 2nd, nowhere have I found a NEW.* syntax (as written).
In general, "foo.*" where foo is a visible table alias is meaningful
anywhere that a rowtype value would be accepted. There is a special
case at the top level of a SELECT result list, where it will be broken
apart into a list of foo's component fields because the SQL spec says
so.
Thanks very much. I had just started writing 'foo' because I didn't
know about 'foo.*' and it's been working so far (8.0.3) but
would _hate_ to have it break on upgrade.
This is the first time I've found the Postgres documentation to be
really lacking. I suppose there has to be a first.
(Very sorry, _wway_ to busy to write a doc patch.)
Karl <kop@xxxxxxxx>
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