To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>,
	Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 7.5 release notes 
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
	message dated "Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:01:09 -0400"
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:17:10 -0400
Message-ID: <19574.1090822630@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> 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