Typing Records

Hackers,

I've been trying to come up with a simpler way to iterate over a series of values in pgTAP tests than by creating a table, inserting rows, and then selecting from the table. The best I've come up with so far is:

CREATE TYPE vcmp AS ( lv semver, op text, rv semver);

SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[
ROW('1.2.2', '=', '1.2.2')::vcmp,
ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23')::vcmp
]);

Not bad, but I was hoping that I could cast all the rows at once, without the type, like so:

SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[
ROW('1.2.2', '=', '1.2.2'),
ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23')
]) AS f(lv semver, op text, rv semver);

But this gives me an error (9.0b4):

psql:t/types.pg:205: ERROR: function return row and query-specified return row do not match
DETAIL: Returned type unknown at ordinal position 1, but query expects semver.

Pity it doesn't default to casting to text there. So I tried to just cast the first row:

SELECT cmp_ok(lv, op, rv) FROM unnest(ARRAY[
ROW('1.2.2'::semver, '='::text, '1.2.2'::semver),
ROW('1.2.23', '=', '1.2.23')
]) AS f(lv semver, op text, rv semver);

That's even worse!

psql:t/types.pg:205: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 18446744071604011012

Wha??

That seems like a bug.

Aside from that, might there be another way to do this without an explicit composite type? Maybe with VALUES() or something?

Thanks,

David