Re: Name column - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Name column
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Msg-id AANLkTim9nssn1MvDH0znHEDebnroS9yXRQYsZSqnDaBk@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Name column  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> For historical reasons PostgreSQL supports calling a function with a single
> argument like "column.function", in addition to "function(column)". There is
> a function "name(text)" that casts the input to the 'name' datatype, so your
> example casts the row to text and from text to name.

I'm starting to wonder if we should think about deprecating this
behavior.  It is awfully confusing and unintuitive.

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Robert Haas
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