Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:16:46 -0600
From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Martin Chantler <MC44@acw.co.uk>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Stored Procedure Question
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:03:02AM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Martin Chantler wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am confused about Postgres stored procedures (aka functions), can they
> > only return one value???
> 
> They could return sets, but before 7.3 the usefulness was limited
> 
> > All examples I have seen don't return a recordset
> 
> You might want to see
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/SetReturningFunctions

Hmm, this is cool. I can think of a couple documents I could contribute to
this area over the summer.

Is there a mailing list one can sign up to to be informed of new content
in techdocs? That would be useful.

-Roberto

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