>I've been looking at this, and my feeling is that we should drop the
>PROARGMODE_TABLE business and just define RETURNS TABLE(x int, y int)
>as exactly equivalent to RETURNS SETOF RECORD with x and y treated as
>OUT parameters. There isn't any advantage to distinguishing the cases
>that outweighs breaking client code that looks at pg_proc.proargmodes.
>I don't believe that the SQL spec prevents us from exposing those
>parameter names to PL functions, especially since none of our PLs are
>in the standard at all.
>
Reason for PROARGMODE_TABLE was protection before name's collision, and x,
and y are table attributies (not variables) and then we are protected before
collision. It's shortcut for
create function foo() returns setof record as ...
select * from foo() as (x int, y int);
Regards
Pavel Stehule
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