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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Simon Connah <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Return a table from a function
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:44:08 +0200
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On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 16:52 +0000, Simon Connah wrote:
> I've written a function that returns a table. It works fine and I get the expected results.
>  The only problem is that in Node.js which is the client the table data is a string rather
>  than a list of variables. Is there some way to change the return data so it is still like
>  a table but in something like JSON? Or even better is there a way to return it as the
>  individual rows so that each column can be easily accessed? I'm using pg-promise to access
>  PostgreSQL from a Node.js web application.

It's a bit unclear what you are doing, but I guess you should run

  SELECT * FROM myfunction('arg');

rather than

  SELECT myfunction('arg');

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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