From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
To: ddurst@larubber.com, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: returning setof in plpgsql
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:56:02 +0000
Message-ID: <200301211456.02748.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> (raw)
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On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 10:40 am, David Durst wrote:
> I have a function that I want to return setof a table in plpgsql.
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION lookup_account(varchar(32)) RETURNS SETOF accounts AS '
> DECLARE
> aname ALIAS FOR $1;
> rec RECORD;
> BEGIN
> select into rec * from accounts where accountname = aname;
> return rec;
> END;'
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> This seems to hang when I attempt to select it using:
>
> select accountid(
> lookup_account('some account')),
> accountname(lookup_account('some account')),
> type(lookup_account('some account')),
> balance(lookup_account('some account'));
>
> Does anyone see a problem w/ my approach??
Hi David,
I've never done this but I seem to remember seeing something about this
recently.
Firstly, I think you need 7.3.1 to do this.
You then have to create a 'type' as being a set of your table. You then
define the function as returning that type.
Sorry I can't be more specific, but as I said, I've never done it.
Gary
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