Bborie Park <bkp...@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> I have a C type function that returns a set of a type.  The problem I 
> have is that the underlying function may return NULL.  When the 
> underlying function returns NULL, I get the error message:

> ERROR:  function returning set of rows cannot return null value

> I'm wondering what is the proper way to correct this problem?

Don't do that ;-).  You could choose either to not return any row
at all when this happens, or to construct an all-nulls row to return.
ExecMakeTableFunctionResult doesn't want to guess which behavior is
appropriate for your use-case, so it just complains.

                        regards, tom lane

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