Thread: problem with getting return type mismatch from function

Jackson, Harold writes:
> Any ideas?

No.  This list is for discussing documentation issues.

On Thursday 18 December 2003 02:44, Jackson, Harold wrote:
> Hi,
>     I'm having a problem with a function that I'm trying to create.  I
> created a data type that is composed of fields from 2 different tables.
> When I create SQL functions this seems to work just  fine.  However,
> when I try to use this data type in a plpgsql function, I get the error
> message
> " return type mismatch in function returning tuple at or near
> "type_name"". No way is what I created a tuple.  We're running
> PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on Red Hat Linux.  Any ideas?

To expand on Peter's note - try the general or sql lists. You'll need to
supply the code from the function too, otherwise no-one can help.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd