You can return a record:

create function thing(text) returns record as 'select * from whatever
where id=$1' language sql;

Hope this helps.

--Imad
www.EnterpriseDB.com



On 11/5/06, Mark Simon <mark@manngo.net> wrote:
>
>  I am trying to create a simple function using SQL rather than PGSQL. At
> this point, it's just for the exercise.
>
>  Is it possible to create a function similar to the following:
>
>      create function thing(text) as select * from whatever where id=$1;
>
>  Do I need to specify all of the columns from the table (whatever) as out
> parameters, or as a return type, or can I have a generic table returned from
> this?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Mark
>
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