On 9/26/23 11:03 AM, Ron wrote:
On 9/26/23 12:46, Tom Lane wrote:
Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
Is there a way to define the SETOF record on the fly, like you do with
RETURNS TABLE (f1 type1, f2 type2)?
Doesn't RETURNS TABLE meet the need already?
That rationale means that RETURN SETOF is not needed, and can be removed from Pg, since "RETURNS TABLE meet the need already".
But of course there are times when RETURN SETOF is useful.
So... can ad hoc SETOF definitions be created in the function definition, or is CREATE TYPE the only way to do it?
That is what RETURNS TABLE does:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createfunction.html
"column_name
The name of an output column in the RETURNS TABLE syntax. This is effectively another way of declaring a named OUT parameter, except that RETURNS TABLE also implies RETURNS SETOF.
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