> What if relabeling support were to spread some more? The only example I can think of besides XML is JSON. There might be a few more. Basically, relabelling is a handy shortcut when you are serializing data and want to avoid specifying a list of columns and an (almost) identical list of labels. Otherwise, it's not good for much. I think we should eventually aim to support user-defined functions that work like this, because people will forever be inventing new ways to serialize things and it'd be nice not to have to recompile to add support for a new one.
I suppose you might want to do something like this: html_input(foo) returns <input name='foo' type='text' value='[...value of foo...]'> html_input(foo AS bar) returns <input name='foo' type='text' value='[...value of foo...]'> html_input(foo, type: hidden) returns <input name='foo' type='hidden' value='[...value of foo...]'> ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
