On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mali Akmanalp wrote: > Returning the type information to the caller seems like a pain > but compatCrosstabTupleDescs already has instances in it where it fails > with an error message, so I propose we just do that and tell the user the > expected and actual types here, instead of returning false here and > throwing a generic error message in the caller. > > What do you think? Let me know so I can write up a patch for you guys.
That would prove helpful, +1 from me. > Also, just curious, is the reason the query passed into crosstab is a > string (rather than an SQL expression) that it's just easier to implement > that way? Yes. Accepting the query as proper SQL syntax would require modifying the backend grammar. Extensions cannot do that, but they can define functions accepting a string and run it as a SQL command. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
