From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Surajit Bhattacharjee <surajitb@virtusa.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: function returning a cursor and a scalar
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:21:30 -0400
Message-ID: <20090713182130.GG4930@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Surajit Bhattacharjee wrote:
> I am new to Postgresql and am trying to write a function which will do a
> search and return the first page of results along with the total number
> of matches. How can I make my function return a cursor AND a scalar -
> can I do the scalar as an OUT param and then make the function
> explicitly RETURN a refcursor?
Why wouldn't you just use two OUT params?
BTW how do you plan on returning the number of matches?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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