I'm trying to create a function in package that returns a table. I hope to call the function once in the package, but be able to re-use its data mulitple times. While I know I create temp tables in Oracle, I was hoping to keep things DRY.

So far, this is what I have:

Header:

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE TEST AS 

    TYPE MEASURE_RECORD IS RECORD (
      L4_ID VARCHAR2(50),
      L6_ID VARCHAR2(50),
      L8_ID VARCHAR2(50),
      YEAR NUMBER,
      PERIOD NUMBER,
      VALUE NUMBER
    );

    TYPE MEASURE_TABLE IS TABLE OF MEASURE_RECORD;

    FUNCTION GET_UPS(
      TIMESPAN_IN IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'MONTLHY',
      STARTING_DATE_IN DATE,
      ENDING_DATE_IN DATE  
    ) RETURN MEASURE_TABLE;

END TEST;

Body:

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY TEST AS 

  FUNCTION GET_UPS (
    TIMESPAN_IN IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'MONTLHY',
    STARTING_DATE_IN DATE,
    ENDING_DATE_IN DATE
  ) RETURN MEASURE_TABLE IS

    T MEASURE_TABLE;

  BEGIN

        SELECT  ...
        INTO    T
        FROM    ...

      ;

  RETURN T;

  END GET_UPS;

END TEST;

The header compiles, the body does not. One error message is 'not enough values', which probably means that I should be selecting into the MEASURE_RECORD, rather than the MEASURE_TABLE.

What am I missing?