From: reinoud@xs4all.nl (Reinoud van Leeuwen)
Subject: Re: Stored Procedures?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:54:05 GMT
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On Thu, 24 May 2001 13:45:46 +0000 (UTC), devin@spamcop.net (Tod
McQuillin) wrote:

>Postgres doesn't have stored procedures in the same way that other
>databases like oracle and sybase do.  But it does have stored functions,
>and they can be used in almost exactly the same way.

In Sybase I am used to the fact that stored procedures can return a
result set to the client. Something like;

create procedure sp_example (@param int) as
begin
  select bla 
  from tablename 
  where somecolumn = @param
end

(of course in pratice stored procedures get a lot more complex than
this :-)

Is something like this posstible in PostgreSQL?

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