From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@seespotcode.net>
Cc: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
Cc: SQL Postgresql List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: SELECT syntax synopsis: column_definition?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:53:21 +0100
Message-ID: <87zm0kigwe.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50700110-2B0D-4935-B033-084ED908BEC5@seespotcode.net>
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<50700110-2B0D-4935-B033-084ED908BEC5@seespotcode.net>
"Michael Glaesemann" <grzm@seespotcode.net> writes:
> ERROR: a column definition list is only allowed for functions returning
> "record"
>
> So the *form* is right, but I don't know of an example that works.
postgres=# create function testf() returns record as 'select 1' language sql;
CREATE FUNCTION
postgres=# select * from testf() as (i integer);
i
---
1
(1 row)
I haven't quite figured out how this is useful though. It probably makes more
sense if you use plpgsql but I still don't quite see what the use case is.
--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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