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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

To set returning functions, literally return a set of rows. That allows them to be used in either the FROM clause, as if they were a table, or the SELECT clause. The generate_series() set of functions returns either dates or integers, depending on the data types of the input parameters you use.

The :: operator is used to cast between data types. The random string from a list of strings example uses PostgreSQL arrays. You can create an array using the ARRAY constructor syntax, and then use an integer to reference one element in the array. In our case, we used a random subscript.

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