How to call Postgres function returning SETOF record?

Question

I have written the following function:

    -- Gets stats for all markets
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION GetMarketStats (
)
RETURNS SETOF record
AS
$$
BEGIN
 SELECT 'R approved offer' AS Metric,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'A+' AND M.Term = 24 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketAPlus24,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'A+' AND M.Term = 36 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketAPlus36,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'A' AND M.Term = 24 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketA24,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'A' AND M.Term = 36 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketA36,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'B' AND M.Term = 24 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketB24,
 SUM(CASE WHEN M.MarketName = 'B' AND M.Term = 36 THEN LO.Amount ELSE 0 end) AS MarketB36
FROM "Market" M
 INNER JOIN "Listing" L ON L.MarketID = M.MarketID
 INNER JOIN "ListingOffer" LO ON L.ListingID = LO.ListingID;
END
$$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;

And when trying to call it like this...

select * from GetMarketStats() AS (Metric VARCHAR(50),MarketAPlus24 INT,MarketAPlus36 INT,MarketA24 INT,MarketA36 INT,MarketB24 INT,MarketB36 INT);

I get an error:

ERROR:  query has no destination for result data
HINT:  If you want to discard the results of a SELECT, use PERFORM instead.
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "getmarketstats" line 2 at SQL statement

I don't understand this output. I've tried using perform too, but I thought one only had to use that if the function doesn't return anything.

Answer 1

Your function doesn't maken sense, it doesn't return anything. It looks like a VIEW, so why don't you create a view?

Edit: You have use the OUT parameters or RETURN TABLE() with the parameters:

    CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_func(OUT o_id INT, OUT o_bar TEXT) 
    RETURNS SETOF RECORD AS
    $$
    BEGIN
        RETURN QUERY SELECT id, bar FROM foo;
    END;
    $$
    LANGUAGE plpgsql;


    SELECT  * FROM my_func();