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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:40:47 -0600
From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: Ferenc Engard <engard@all.hu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pl/pgsql capabilities?
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:43:29AM +0200, Ferenc Engard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A long time ago (at version 6.3.2 or what :) I have asked, but maybe
> since it changed: can I use the procedural languages (any of them) to
> return a table- (or view-) like output, just like in Interbase, for
> example? E.g., if I have a metamodel and I want to write functions what
> perform complex computations and queries, can they return the result
> (which can be of many rows) to the client?

As of PG 7.2 you can, by returning a cursor:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-cursors.html

-Roberto

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