Mourad,

> > I have an other question about the use of %type and alias in
> PL/SQL.  So the
> > excution of functions containing varibales of type
> maytable.field1%type
> > prompts parser errors.
> > error on the creation of the function :
> > create function test (int) returns maytable.field1%type as' ...

What Roberto is saying is that the declaration:

DECLARE
v_field1 mytable.field1%type

is supported internal to a PL/pgSQL function, but

CREATE FUNCTION test1(int) RETURNS mytable.filed1%type 

is not.  This is because the %type declaration is supported in PL/pgSQL,
but not in Postgres SQL.

-Josh

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