Hi, I want to make a function to parsetext and return key-value pairs create or replace function extractinfo (text) returns table (key char[1], val text) language plpgsql as $$ I first tried declare xx record; begin .... xx.key = ....; xx.val = ....; return next xx: This is not possible because xx needs to know its structure before the fields can be assiged to. Could I declare xx as having these fields in the first place, do Ineedto create a type for key, val first? Wolfgang Hamann