The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 8870
Logged by: Marko Tiikkaja
Email address: marko@joh.to
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.2
Operating system: OS X
Description:
I looked more closely into a gripe from Stephen Frost, which lead me into
discovering this behaviour:
=# create function f() returns void as
-# $$declare
$# f1 int;
$# begin
$# select 1, 2 into f1;
$# end
$# $$ language plpgsql;
CREATE FUNCTION
=# select f();
f
---
(1 row)
Which directly contradicts this statement in the docs
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-SQL-ONEROW):
"If a row or a variable list is used as target, the query's result columns
must exactly match the structure of the target as to number and data types,
or else a run-time error occurs."
This seems to have been broken by commit
8bb3c8fe5413103c30ba8d1bcb3a1f8e46bddf3d. I strongly believe the
documentation is right in this case, and the behaviour ought to change.
