Re: (SETOF) RECORD AS complex_type

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:22:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > What would be involved in fixing the casting operation so that the
> > following would work?
> 
> > CREATE TYPE foo AS (
> >     a INT4,
> >     b INT8,
> >     c POINT,
> >     d TEXT
> > );
> 
> > CREATE FUNCTION bar(output_type TEXT)
> > RETURNS SETOF RECORD
> > ...
> 
> > SELECT * FROM bar('foo') AS foo;
> 
> The problem with that is that "AS foo" already has a meaning, and it's
> not this one.

How about "AS (foo)" ?

Cheers,
D
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