> Here, we've somehow got the first two fields of u_address_type - street and
> zip - squashed together into one column named 'street', and all the other
> columns nulled out.
I think this is the old problem of PL/pgsql having two forms of SELECT
INTO. You can either say:
SELECT col1, col2, col3, ... INTO recordvar FROM ...
Or you can say:
SELECT col1, col2, col3, ... INTO nonrecordvar1, nonrecordvar2,
nonrecordvar3, ... FROM ...
In this case, since address is a recordvar, it's expecting the first
form - thus the first select-list item gets matched to the first
column of the address, rather than to address as a whole. It's not
smart enough to consider the types of the items involved - only
whether they are records. :-(
So what you're suggesting is that the plpgsql code is causing the issues? Are there any indications about how I could re-write this code? The important thing for me is to have the aforementioned signature of the plpgsql function with one UDT OUT parameter. Even if this is a bit awkward in general, in this case, I don't mind rewriting the plpgsql function content to create a workaround for this problem...