I have this function that returns me all children of a tree node:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fn_category_get_childs_v2(id_pai integer)
RETURNS integer[] AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
ids_filhos integer array;
BEGIN
SELECT array ( 
SELECT category_id FROM category WHERE category_id IN (
(WITH RECURSIVE parent AS
(
    SELECT category_id , parent_id  from category WHERE category_id = id_pai
    UNION ALL 
    SELECT t.category_id , t.parent_id FROM parent
    INNER JOIN category t ON parent.category_id =  t.parent_id
)
SELECT category_id FROM  parent
WHERE category_id <> id_pai
) )
 ) into ids_filhos; 
return ids_filhos;
END;
and I would like to use it in a select statement like this:
select * 
from teste1_elements 
where category_id in (select * from fn_category_get_childs_v2(12))
I've also tried this way with the same result:
select * 
from teste1_elements
where category_id=any(select * from fn_category_get_childs_v2(12)))
But I get the following error:
ERROR:  operator does not exist: integer = integer[]
LINE 1: select * from teste1_elements where category_id in (select *...
                                                    ^
HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.
The function returns an integer array, is that the problem?  
 SELECT * from fn_category_get_childs_v2(12)
retrieves the following array (integer[]):
 '{30,32,34,20,19,18,17,16,15,14}'