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Subject: Re: Returning rows from functions
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David Durst wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way of returning a complete row from a
> function, in reading the documentation of CREATE FUNCTION. I was under the
> impression that you could return a row by using setof, but this does not
> seem to be true.
> Can anyone help?

The short answer is "yes, but..."; see the thread at:
     http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2002-06/msg00042.php
for a recent discussion about this.

HTH,

Joe