Re: Cannot declare record members NOT NULL

From: Cultural Sublimation <cultural_sublimation(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "Uwe C(dot) Schroeder" <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cannot declare record members NOT NULL
Date: 2007-09-12 20:18:54
Message-ID: 334560.22089.qm@web63403.mail.re1.yahoo.com
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> Why do you create an extra type for that?
> Just have your method return "movies"

Hi,

Thanks for the answer. The simple example obfuscates the fact that in reality
the table has a few extra columns that are omitted from get_movies_t.
Therefore, I cannot return "movies".

However, your answer did give me an idea: instead of declaring "get_movies_t"
as a record, I declare it as dummy table, and return that (see code at the
end).
This works, though it is *very* ugly. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
C.S.

CREATE TABLE get_movies_t
(
movie_id int4 NOT NULL,
movie_name text NOT NULL
);

CREATE FUNCTION get_movies ()
RETURNS SETOF get_movies_t
LANGUAGE sql STABLE
AS
$$
SELECT movie_id, movie_name FROM movies;
$$;

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