John,
> I've been working on a function which returns a setof a composite type.
> Everytime I've changed the structure of the returning setof, I've had to
> change the type accordingly, which current means doing a drop type ...
> cascade down to the function. We should allow one of the following:
Why not go all the way and work out a way to define an SRF return type as a
part of the function? e.g.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION some_srf ( param1 int, param2 text )
RETURNS some_srf ( col1 int, col2 numeric ) AS ....
Then the "replace" function would automatically rebuild the type.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
