From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Gregory S. Williamson <gsw@globexplorer.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: function definition documentation
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:08:56 +0000
Message-ID: <200403230808.57253.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A2568328DC9B6B@loki.wc.globexplorer.net>
References: <71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A2568328DC9B6B@loki.wc.globexplorer.net>
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 02:16, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
> I am having an impossible time porting some simple Stored Procedures from
> Informix to postgres. The documentation is almost self defeating.
>
> Are there any better descriptions of how to define functions that return
> several tuples to a wide variety of calling programs (e.g. I can't count on
> my users running the psql command line tool, but rather coldfusion, jsp
> etc.) ?
You might want to look at the "Set Returning Functions" at the techdocs site:
http://techdocs.postgresql.org
Most of your problems are down to quoting issues and misleading error
statements.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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