> Someone changed the parser to build a TypeName node on CREATE
> FUNCTION in any case. As a side effect, ALL! functions
> created got the proretset attribute to true. Thus for a
> SELECT the parser wrapped an Iter node around the Expr and
> since singleton functions set isDone the Iter returns no
> tuple up.
Ah. I broke it (though the regression tests did not find the problem). What
I changed was the code in gram.y, which used to just create a string node
for the return type clause _unless_ the return type was a "SETOF type". In
that case a Typename node was created, and the setof attribute was
explicitly set.
What you found is that farther along, the setof attribute was forced to be
true if _any_ Typename node is present.
It looks like your patch will completely fix things, and is better than my
reverting the gram.y code. Can you suggest a small test case to include in
the regression suite?
Unless there are objections from others (with a preference for reverting
the gram.y code) I'll go ahead and apply Jan's patch.
- Tom