"Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a PL-Pgsql function that returns a record of a type that have 4 elements (columns). Let's say the first element/column is called "id_num". Is there a way I can specify the id_num element of the record returned from iside a query? > For example, select col1 from thetable where my_plpgsql_fn(col2).id_num = 123; You're just missing some parentheses: select col1 from thetable where (my_plpgsql_fn(col2)).id_num = 123; as indeed is documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-expressions.html#AEN1679 There are messy syntactic reasons for requiring these parens, which I don't recall the details of at the moment ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
