Re: Error in PLpgSQL with SELECT INTO and composite types

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>    SELECT '("(1)")'::btype INTO bvar;  -- Should work, but errors

No, because it's expecting the SELECT to yield a separate column for
each column of the composite variable bvar.  Something like

SELECT ('("(1)")'::btype).* INTO bvar;

would be correct.  To make it work the way you're thinking would break
a lot of code that expects the existing semantics --- instead of

select expr1, expr2 into two_column_record_var from ...

people would have to write something like

select row(expr1, expr2) into two_column_record_var from ...

            regards, tom lane