So currently the only way to specify a row type is by using a table, right? E.g.:
CREATE TABLE t2_retval ( value1 int NOT NULL DEFAULT -1, value2 int NOT NULL, value3 int ); Are there plans to add another way of declaring this sort of thing so that I don't have to add a new table to my schema for every function that returns a rowtype? Second, it seems that there's still a problem with NULLs here: CREATE FUNCTION t2() RETURNS t2_retval AS ' DECLARE retval t2_retval%ROWTYPE; BEGIN SELECT INTO retval null, null, null; RETURN retval; END ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; This is returning a row that (to my mind) doesn't match the type of the table above, because it's returning null for non-nullable columns: cjs=> select coalesce(value1, -999), coalesce(value2, -999), cjs-> coalesce(value3, -999) from t2(); case | case | case ------+------+------ -999 | -999 | -999 (1 row) (You get the same result if you delete the SELECT INTO line above.) Am I misunderstanding something here, or is this a bug? cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster