Re: why can't plpgsql return a row-expression?

2012/10/8 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> ERROR: RETURN must specify a record or row variable in function returning row
>
>> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any reason for this
>> restriction, nor can I find any code comments or anything in the
>> commit log which explains the reason for it. Does anyone know why we
>> don't allow this?
>
> Laziness, probably. Feel free to have at it.

I wrote patch some years ago. It was rejected from performance reasons
- because every row had to be casted to resulted type.

Pavel

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