My notion of "anonymous record", and the need of this kind of "higher-order type", are discussed in the links below,
http://stackoverflow.com/q/23439240 "Functions can not to *return individual items of a record*" http://stackoverflow.com/q/21246201 "PostgreSQL v9.X have real '*array of record*' ? The first question is about performance: "*returns table*" have the same performance than "*returns record*"?? If "yes", the *record* datatype is somewhat outdated? The second question/discussion shows a more deeper problem, where perhaps the use of string index in array syntax (something like x['a']) would be a good syntax solution. Craig Ringer shows another suggestion in the (second) link. I am new here, I do not know how, but I'm available to help... Can a future version of PostgreSQL implement some solution? Peter
