This patch clarifies the usage of references in PL/Perl :)

David Fetter

doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml

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  <chapter id="plperl">
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ composite types.
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   Here is an example of a PL/Perl function returning a rowset of a row type:
+   Here is an example of a PL/Perl function returning a rowset of a
+   row type.  Note that a composite type is always represented as a
+   hash reference.
 <programlisting>
 CREATE TABLE test (
        i int,
@@ -305,7 +307,10 @@ $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
   </para>
 
   <para>
-  Here is an example of a PL/Perl function returning a rowset of a composite type.
+  Here is an example of a PL/Perl function returning a rowset of a
+composite type.  As a rowset is always a reference to an array
+and a composite type is always a reference to a hash, a rowset of a
+composite type is a reference to an array of hash references.
   <programlisting>
 CREATE TYPE testsetperl AS (f1 integer, f2 text, f3 text);