Re: functions returning records

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)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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