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2323 Table Functions
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25- Functions can now returnentire tables , with multiple rows
26- and multiple columns. Youcan specify these functions in
27- the SELECT FROM clause.
25+ Functions can now returnsets , with multiple rows
26+ and multiple columns. You specify these functions in
27+ the SELECT FROM clause, similar to a table or view .
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2929 Privileges
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@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ Add OVERLAY(), which allows substitution of a substring in a string (Thomas)
274274Add SIMILAR TO as a synonym for our existing operator "~" (Thomas)
275275Add regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape) (Thomas)
276276Add LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP functions (Thomas)
277+ Add named composite types using CREATE TYPE typename AS (column) (Joe)
278+ Allow composite type definition in the table alias clause (Joe)
279+ Add new API to simplify creation of C language table functions (Joe)
277280Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99 functions
278281 for which these parentheses do not match the standar (Thomas)
279282Add appendix in the User's Guide which lists SQL92 features (Thomas)