how to return parts of records from a function

From: "A B" <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: how to return parts of records from a function
Date: 2008-05-14 15:23:50
Message-ID: dbbf25900805140823w5413a2c0mcc577552564ae42b@mail.gmail.com
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Hello.
I think I need som help on this function I write in plpgsql
I want to return
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION gList(tid_ TIMESTAMP) RETURNS AS $$
DECLARE
rec RECORD;
BEGIN
FOR rec IN SELECT DISTINCT custid,action,nr FROM ...
IF rec.action = ...
END IF;
RETURN NEXT ???????????????
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

I want to replace the ????????? with something that will contain both
rec.nr and rec.action. What should that looklike? rec.nr ,
rec.action ?
And what should I write after RETURNS .... in the first line? RECORD?

Oh, now that I write this I understand that I could replace the RETURN
NEXT in the loop with a single RETURN QUERY at the end... I don't know
if that will be good, but I still would like to know how to return the
separate fields from the rec record.

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