[PATCH] Allow anonymous rowtypes in function return column definition - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Currently, the following query

    SELECT q.b = row(2)
    FROM unnest(ARRAY[row(1, row(2))]) AS q(a int, b record);

would fail with

    ERROR:  column "b" has pseudo-type record

This is due to CheckAttributeNamesTypes() being used on a function
coldeflist as if it was a real relation definition.  But in the context
of a query there seems to be no harm in allowing this, as other ways of
manipulating anonymous rowtypes work well, e.g.:

    SELECT (ARRAY[ROW(1, ROW(2))])[1];



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