Re: Porting SQL Server 2000 database to PostgreSQL

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 02:49, anony wrote:
> 3. inside the function single quotes must be escaped because your
> function is entered in as a string literal.
>

be aware that your editor might quote these for you (at least some of
the admin apps do, not sure about PgAdminIII though)

> 4. to return recordsets you must create a custom return TYPE and use a
> FOR loop with %ROWTYPE to interate thru the data.
>

this isn't always true... see
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/SetReturningFunctions

And while you're there check out the section on the main page about
converting from other databases, there are a couple on $ql server. Also
take notes on your conversion and submit your own article when your done
:-)

Robert Treat
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