Hello, wonderful people who are providing us with a wonderful piece of software!
Just wanted to suggest that an existing feature is included in the documentation. It seems to be undocumented now. Also I don't think it's an obvious feature. I looked carefully under the reference section for SELECT, under the section talking about Composite Types, under the section talking about ROW() and a bunch of other places but I couldn't find it. This makes me hesitate to use it, because I don't know if and how much I can rely on a feature that *seems* undocumented -- by the way, if it *is* documented somewhere, I apologize in advance.
So, you can use the table name in the SELECT list to pack the columns of the resultset into a composite datatype matching the table type. For example, if I have a table called JOB_LOG, I can do this:
testdb=# Select JOB_LOG From JOB_LOG Limit 2; job_log -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1,"2014-08-17 08:32:04.058247","dequeue: Retrieving next pending job",) (2,"2014-08-17 08:32:04.108799","dequeue: No more jobs",) (2 rows)
