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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 7.5 release notes
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:17:10 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:22:21AM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>> In the release not I can read:
>> This allows columns to contain arbitrary composite types
>> like rows from other tables. [SNIPPED]
>>
>> Wasn't this alread true on 7.4 ?
> No, this is a new feature. Did you try inserting anything into the
> tables?
Postgres has always accepted this syntax, but it has not done anything
useful in many years, and when it last did do something useful the
semantics were quite a bit different :-(
Elein has standing to bash me about the change of semantics, but I don't
think the rest of you do ...
regards, tom lane
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