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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200207060217.g662HGT11627@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: How do i return a dataset from a stored procedure
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To: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:17:16 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: teknokrat <teknokrat@yahoo.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Roberto Mello wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 01:32:33AM -0700, 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?
> 
> Search the list archives (through groups.google.com - it's
> comp.databases.postgresql) or see the developer docs for PL/pgSQL. You
> can achive that effect by returning a cursor in PG 7.2 (the section on
> returning cursors is ommitted from the current docs in
> www.postgresql.org/idocs, so you need to look at the developer docs - see
> www.us.postgresql.org).

7.3 will have better docs on using it but you can see them now in the
developers docs:

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

See the bottom of that page for examples.

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