"Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
> in the spanish list someone reports that the following function
> doesn't even compile:
> CREATE FUNCTION select_temporal(OUT valor integer) RETURNS SETOF record AS
> $BODY$
> begin
> return query select 1::integer;
> return;
> end;
> $BODY$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
> and this is the error message
> ERROR: function result type must be integer because of OUT parameters
It's not a record, it's an integer... if you had more than one out
parameter then "record" would be sensible ...
regards, tom lane