Re: functions returning records

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> >     1.  Adding a new relkind  that  means  'record'.  So  we  use
> >         pg_class,  pg_attribute  and  pg_type as we do for tables
> >         and views to describe a structure.
>
> It seems fairly ugly to have a pg_class entry for something that
> isn't a table or even a table-like entity.  It would be nice if
> we could describe a record type with only pg_type and pg_attribute
> entries.  I haven't thought about it in detail, but seems like it
> could be done if pg_attribute entries are changed to reference
> pg_type, not pg_class, rows as their parent.  However, this would
> break so many existing queries in psql and other clients that it'd
> probably be unacceptable :-(
   It's  not  THAT  ugly  for  me,  and the fact that it's named   "pg_class" instead of "pg_relation" makes some sense
all  of   the sudden.
 


Jan

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