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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:45:04 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Kelly Burkhart <kelly@tradebotsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: pl/pythonu - return values
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Kelly Burkhart wrote:

>Can pl/pythonu procedures return anything other than a string?
>
>I have some python code which communicates to another process and can
>either return sensible results or some kind of error.  I was hoping to
>return something like:
>
>create type rval_t as (status integer, status_txt text, result text);
>  
>
Well you could have it return the set using a setof function.

>Is something like this possible?
>
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