"Ray O'Donnell" <ray@rodonnell.ie> writes:
> (iii) Running (ii) but with the order of the items in RETURNING reversed -
> ... returning t, merge_action() into m_new, m_action
> - gave me a different error:
> ERROR: record variable cannot be part of multiple-item INTO list
> LINE 53: m, merge_action() into m_new, m_action
> ...which seems to answer my question definitively.
Ah, after looking at the source code in that area, plpgsql
allows the INTO target to be either a single composite
variable, or one or more non-composite variables; the
argument being that otherwise it's too hard to decide which
RETURNING items match which INTO items.
But I think maybe there is still a solution:
declare
m_into record;
...
returning
merge_action() m, t
into
m_into;
... then fetch m_into.m and m_into.t (the latter will be
a composite field). I didn't try this approach though.
regards, tom lane
