Background: I have a number of schemas all of which contain a "ticket" table having the same columns. The goal of the function xticket1 below is to collect all ticket rows satisfying some condition from all those schemas, and additionally label each one by adding a new column containing the name of the schema it belongs to. -- Create a temporary table with the right layout -- for our function's return type (know a better way?) CREATE TEMP TABLE tix ( LIKE master.ticket ); ALTER TABLE tix ADD COLUMN schema_name text; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xticket1(condition TEXT) RETURNS SETOF tix AS $BODY$ DECLARE scm RECORD; result RECORD; BEGIN FOR scm IN SELECT schema_name FROM public.instance_defs LOOP FOR result IN EXECUTE 'SELECT ' || scm.schema_name || '.ticket.*,' || ' ''' || scm.schema_name || ''' AS schema_name' || ' FROM ' || scm.schema_name || '.ticket' || ' WHERE ' || condition LOOP RETURN NEXT result; END LOOP; END LOOP; RETURN; END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; The problem is, psql is complaining: ERROR: wrong record type supplied in RETURN NEXT I don't know why, and I don't know how to get psql to give me useful debugging info that would help me discover why. Can someone help? Thanks