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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Humair Mohammed <humairm@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re:
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:34:34 -0400
Message-ID: <9537.1303396474@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL115-W5B9743896227438D2716DA8930@phx.gbl>
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Humair Mohammed <humairm@hotmail.com> writes:
> I am running into a behavior with a postgresql function with a SETOF refcursor's returning multiple columns. Not sure if there is a different way to retrieve a SETOF refcursor's with variable columns? Alternatively can I return a primitive value and a refcursor from the same function. I tried specifying this as OUT parameters without any luck. In Oracle you can pass this in functions:
> Platform:postgresql-x64-9.0 (PostgreSQL 9.0.1, compiled by Visual C++ build 1500, 64-bit)Java1.6JDBC4 Postgresql Driver, Version 9.0-801

> Function:CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test()  RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS$BODY$DECLAREref1 refcursor;ref2 refcursor;BEGIN          OPEN ref1 FOR SELECT 1;         RETURN NEXT ref1;          OPEN ref2 FOR SELECT 2, 3;         RETURN NEXT ref2;          RETURN;END;    $BODY$  LANGUAGE plpgsql

> Java Code:CallableStatement cs = conn.prepareCall("{ call test() }");ResultSet rs = cs.executeQuery();
> while (rs.next()) {	System.out.println(rs.getString(1));	ResultSet rs2 = (ResultSet)rs.getObject(1);	while (rs2.next()) {		ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs2.getMetaData();		int numberOfColumns = rsmd.getColumnCount();		System.out.println("numberOfColumns: " + numberOfColumns);		System.out.println(rs2.getString(1));		System.out.println(rs2.getString(2));	}}
> Output:<unnamed portal 1>numberOfColumns: 11org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The column index is out of range: 2, number of columns: 1.        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.checkColumnIndex(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2680)        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.checkResultSet(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:2697)        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.getString(AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java:1872)        at PgBlob.test(PgBlob.java:64)        at PgBlob.main(PgBlob.java:37)
> It appears the second result-set takes in the number of columns from the first irrespective of the number of columns from the second. If the change the function to return 2 refcursor's with same number of columns then it works as expected.
> Function:CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test()  RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS$BODY$DECLAREref1 refcursor;ref2 refcursor;BEGIN          OPEN ref1 FOR SELECT 1, null;         RETURN NEXT ref1;          OPEN ref2 FOR SELECT 2, 3;         RETURN NEXT ref2;          RETURN;END;    $BODY$  LANGUAGE plpgsql
> Output:<unnamed portal 1>numberOfColumns: 214<unnamed portal 2>numberOfColumns: 223 		 	   		  

The example function works okay for me in psql.  I think this is
actually a question about how to deal with such cases through the JDBC
driver, so I'd suggest asking on the pgsql-jdbc list.  (Perhaps in a
less messy format this time, and could we ask for a useful Subject:
line too?)

			regards, tom lane



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