From: Denis BUCHER <dbucherml@hsolutions.ch>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Problem with return type of function ??? (corrected)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:29:07 +0200
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Tom Lane a écrit :
> Denis BUCHER <dbucherml@hsolutions.ch> writes:
>> To do this it will be a little complicated because of table
>> dependencies... And it could bug again at the next DROP COLUMN... Is
>> there a way to change my function (RETURN SETOF part) to specify the
>> column names/types ?
>
> No, not really. You could maybe un-drop the columns with some manual
> surgery on pg_attribute, but it doesn't seem like that's going to lead
> to a nice solution.
>
> If you were really desperate you could try back-porting the patch:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-08/msg00068.php
> but I wouldn't want to vouch for its safety, considering it hasn't
> been through a beta test cycle yet.
Finally there was no real dependencies of that table, and I've found out
that the "dependency" was my function ! Using SETOF (table) makes
impossible to DROP the table. Therefore I DROP my function and was able
to follow you advice, and it worked perfectly !
Thanks a lot for your help (as well as Richard's)
Denis
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