Re: Accessing fields in a function that returns a set of composite type - How?

On 4/19/06, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
<matt(dot)baluyos(dot)lists(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a composite type for search_result. This is the definition:
>
> Composite type "public.search_result"
> Column | Type
> ---------------+---------
> article_id | integer
> article_title | text
> headline | text
> rank | real
>
>
> I then have a pl/pgsql function that returns a set of "search_result"
>
> CREATE FUNCTION search(text) RETURNS SETOF search_result LANGUAGE sql $$
> SELECT article_id, article_title, headline(article_text, q),
> rank(article_vector, q)
> FROM articles, to_tsquery($1) AS q
> WHERE article_vector @@ q ORDER BY rank(article_vector, q) DESC;
>
> To do a full-text search, I only need to do this:
>
> SELECT search('string');
>
> However, running the function gives me a recordset with only one
> column ("search"). I'd like to be able to access the fields of the
> composite type (search_result) that is returned by the function -
> article_id, article_title, headline, and rank. I haven't figured out
> how to do this but it's necessary because I want to be able to control
> the formatting of the output.

Hmmm... figured it out already. Please disregard my previous post.

You only need to do a...

SELECT * FROM search('search_string');

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