From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting the return type right for SETOF
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030830135853.I74114-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F50D3EF.27516.2FEF6552@localhost>
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm playing with SETOF on functions. But I can't get the return type
> correct. What have I missed? A cast?
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION elementGet (text) RETURNS SETOF
> element_type AS '
>
> select 1,
> \'test\',
> \'F\'
> \'A\',
> FALSE,
> FALSE
> '
> LANGUAGE sql stable;
> ERROR: function declared to return element_type returns "unknown"
> instead of text at column 2
I think you'll need to explicitly make the three text columns text rather
than just a plain literal (so ''test''::text for example)
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