Re: C Function returning a tuple with a float4 array as column

Tom,

Thanks for the feedback. To clarify, don't need to return multiple
rows, just a single row which is a composite type that contains
multiple arrays. My apologies for using the incorrect terminology.
I have successfully written individual functions to return arrays
and to return composites. The function to return a composite type
used the SRF functions with a row count of 1.

So re-phrasing my question what would the code sequence look like
to return a single composite type, that contained 1 or more arrays?

regards

Tim

On 12/5/2010 1:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> ... But what seems likely to be the problem is that
>> you've declared the function to return set (that's implied by the
>> RETURNS TABLE syntax) but not coded it to do any such thing. I'm
>> guessing some piece of code is confused by the function's failure to
>> follow the SRF API.
> No, scratch that: the problem is with that syntax, but in the columns
> direction not the rows direction. Since you've only got one column,
> the TABLE syntax degenerates to one OUT param, which is treated as
> though it were just the normal function result. IOW, this function
> shouldn't be returning a tuple at all, but just the array datum.
>
> regards, tom lane
>