I wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
>> I get an assertion failure if rec is declared as a record but not
>> if it's declared as a test_type. And only in 8.0.5, not in 8.1.1
>> or 8.2devel.
> I find that the lack of an assertion failure in 8.1 is a happenstance of
> unrelated changes. The problem is that plpgsql is making no effort at
> all to ensure that the record type it returns is the same as it's
> declared to return.
Patches committed to check this in 8.0 and up. 7.4 and 7.3 seem not to
have an issue.
regards, tom lane