Re: a column definition list is required for functions returning "record"

On 8/29/16 6:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> > 2016-08-29 1:59 GMT+02:00 Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>:
>>> >> It would be nice if there was a way to pass dynamically formed records
>>> >> around, similar to how you can pass the results of row() around. Someone
>>> >> else has actually be asking about this at https://github.com/decibel/pg_
>>> >> lambda/issues/1.
>> > Probably there is a space to be PLpgSQL more flexible - but there are
>> > limits - PLpgSQL is black box for SQL engine, and when output is any record
>> > type, then SQL engine knows zero about returning data structure in
>> > preprocessing time.
> Exactly.  You can pass anonymous record types around today, as long as you
> don't do anything that requires knowing what their contents are, either in
> the function or in the calling query:

What I was thinking of is something (like a function) that has
explicitly defined what the contents of the record are.
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