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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgsql return resultset/cursor?
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 00:18:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > I have added an FAQ item and improved the documentation.  Seems the
> > official current docs aren't being built regularly, (last April 3),
> 
> Probably because the markup is temporarily broken.

Oh, is that why.  I just fixed it.

> > so I pointed to my web copy in the FAQ:
> >
> > 	4.25) How do I return multiple rows or columns from a function?
> >
> > 	You can return result sets from PL/pgSQL functions using refcursors. See
> > 	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/plpgsql-cursors.html,
> > 	section 23.7.3.3.
> 
> Please do not publish links to the development docs.

How do I get around that?  I would have to duplicate the doc information
in the FAQ;  seems ugly.

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