Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD77E9F9A34 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:10:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59792-09 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:10:06 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.65]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 697079F9A21 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:10:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 69123 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Aug 2007 03:10:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=W8zVqh4kNB54TZ05Sb3v4bK7rGO0a5dgIFCykqbd3CzYrNkdYQXVqXlP//FfRh/0s+eM7x1yRlv9NBYc4h5YN5oABzvHATVpxeD19fLgU9RWfDpWrUOrAdVCGhn7TN+PzcQjM1JifqJ4AYWDtkWeq7rvUkq2WJBDOZ4F+b1xvYM=; X-YMail-OSG: .Tr5ol0VM1la.gF08yaHk5ulZbne9ndwOkvofJ19MVlSCRjt3O.egsL8Vc5RnL8j.e9PWbojytiyOfcMF_Hqvi9T Received: from [75.84.89.248] by web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:10:04 PDT Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Broersma Jr Subject: Re: SELECT syntax synopsis: column_definition? To: Alvaro Herrera , Gregory Stark Cc: Michael Glaesemann , Richard Broersma Jr , SQL Postgresql List In-Reply-To: <20070822015544.GB12717@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <537672.68070.qm@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.564 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.563, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200708/186 X-Sequence-Number: 29124 --- Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Any function declared as returning SETOF RECORD needs it, when you don't > use OUT params. Before OUT params existed, it was the only way to use > those functions. Thanks everyone for the exposition! It makes sense. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.