Re: Functions returning RECORD

This was very helpfull.

Thank you
Craig

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:33PM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote:
>
>> When I run select * from GetAccountInfo (100) I get the following
>> error message:
>> ERROR: a column definition list is required for functions returning
>> "record"
>
> If the function will always return the same row type then create a
> composite type with CREATE TYPE and return that instead of RECORD.
>
>> please can someone explain to me how to create a column definition list.
>
> See the documentation for SELECT in the Reference part of the
> PostgreSQL documentation; the Examples section shows a query with
> a column definition list. But you won't need a column definition
> list if you return a known type instead of RECORD.
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
>