On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:58:33PM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote: > When I run select * from GetAccountInfo (100) I get the following > error message: > ERROR: a column definition list is required for functions returning "record" If the function will always return the same row type then create a composite type with CREATE TYPE and return that instead of RECORD. > please can someone explain to me how to create a column definition list. See the documentation for SELECT in the Reference part of the PostgreSQL documentation; the Examples section shows a query with a column definition list. But you won't need a column definition list if you return a known type instead of RECORD. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly