Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A38632224 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 06:29:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57507-01 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:29:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133A763453E for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 06:29:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzo3L-0005ui-JW for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:35 +0200 Received: from 217.110.94.67 ([217.110.94.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:35 +0200 Received: from spam_eater by 217.110.94.67 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: Problem with function returning a result set Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:26 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <17356.1270717181@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.110.94.67 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <17356.1270717181@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.418 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.650, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 201004/30 X-Sequence-Number: 33957 Tom Lane, 08.04.2010 10:59: > Thomas Kellerer writes: >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_employees(name_pattern varchar) >> RETURNS TABLE(id integer, full_name text) >> AS >> $$ >> BEGIN > >> RETURN QUERY >> SELECT id, first_name||' '||last_name >> FROM employee >> WHERE last_name LIKE name_pattern ||'%'; >> END >> $$ >> LANGUAGE plpgsql; > >> I get one row returned which is correct, but the ID column is null >> (but should be 1). > > Don't name the parameter the same as the table column ... > > regards, tom lane > I knew it was something simple I overlooked ;) Thanks for the quick response. Regards Thomas