From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Fritz Lehmann-Grube <lehmannf@math.TU-Berlin.DE>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: recursive function returning "setof"
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:52:22 +0800
Message-ID: <006b01c24790$072149c0$0200a8c0@SOL> (raw)
References: <3D60F041.10003@math.tu-berlin.de>
> The problem is:
> A SQL-Function cannot be recursive because it cannot call itself, and it
can
> perform no loops.
> A PLPGSQL-Function cannot return sets.
It can perform loops. Check the manual- you can do FOR and WHILE loops.
7.3 will be able to return sets from PLPGSQL funcs it seems.
Chris
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