On Aug 21, 2007, at 18:04 , Michael Glaesemann wrote:
So the *form* is right, but I don't know of an example that works.
CREATE TABLE foos ( foo text PRIMARY KEY , title text NOT NULL ); INSERT INTO foos (foo, title) values ('foo', 'the great') , ('bar', 'the extravagant') , ('baz', 'the indisputable'); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_foo() RETURNS record LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $body$ DECLARE v_record record; BEGIN SELECT INTO v_record * FROM foos ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 1; RETURN v_record; END; $body$; a | b -----+------------------ baz | the indisputable (1 row) test=# SELECT * test-# FROM get_foo() AS (a text, b text); a | b -----+----------------- bar | the extravagant (1 row) IIRC, this form is used by the crosstab functions in tablefunc. Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly