From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: teknokrat <teknokrat@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How do i return a dataset from a stored procedure
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20020705090743.X27508-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cbae208.0207050032.4e052f07@posting.google.com>
On 5 Jul 2002, teknokrat wrote:
> I can't figure out how to return a group of rows from a function
> written in plpgsql (or plsql for that matter). The only way i have
> seen it done is with a setof table return value in sql. But since the
> query was a single select anyway i don't see the point of this. Is
> there a way of creating a temporary table in a procedure and using it
> as the output?
In 7.2 you can return open cursors from plpgsql functions. You can
make temp tables in a function, but you have to be careful to make sure
that you don't conflict (what happens if the user calls your function
twice)
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