Re: NO DATA FOUND Exception

On Jun 25, 2007, at 17:05, Michael Glaesemann wrote:

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Wasn't aware of this. Will do.
I should obtain a better mail client.

>However, it looks like you're trying to return a set of results
>(i.e., many rows), rather than just a single row. You'll want to look
>at set returning functions. One approach (probably not the best)
>would be to expand p_line into all of the possible v_search items and
>append that to your query, which would look something like:

Thank you for your help. All the advice was very useful and I have now a
working function.
I still have an issue left: I would like my function to return multiple
values (as in columns of a row).
Actually I found two possibilities: array and record. I ended up using
arrays since I couldn't figure out how to access the record data from
outside the function. Nevertheless I think a solution based on returning a
record type when you actually want to return the whole row would be more
elegant.

For example:

CREATE TABLE table1 (
field1 text,
field2 text,
field3 text
);

INSERT INTO table1 ('data1', 'data2', 'data3');

CREATE FUNCTION my_func() RETURNS record AS
$body$
DECLARE
v_row table1%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN

SELECT *
INTO v_row
FROM table1
WHERE <condition> ;

IF FOUND THEN
RETURN v_row;
END IF;

RETURN NULL;

END;
$body$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

SELECT my_func();
my_func
---------------------------------------------------
(data1, data2, data3)

How do I refer a specific field of the returned row from outside the
function? How should I write the query in order to show only fields 1 and 3,
for example?

It's sad to bother with this syntax questions, but I've had a hard time
finding code examples online.

Regards,
Fernando.