Re: Functions returning multiple rowsets

2009/9/28 Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>:
> One thing I like about Microsoft SQL is you can write a sproc that does:
>
> SELECT * FROM TableA
> SELECT * FROM TableB
>
> And in .NET, you'll have a DataSet object with two DataTables, one for
> each table.  Do either of the techniques outlined below provided this
> functionality, though I suppose in .NET you'd be using the NpgSql
> adapter instead..
>

Maybe next year. I found some sources, so I hope so I could to finish
my prototype, that can do it.

Regards
Pavel

this exists only in prototype

http://okbob.blogspot.com/2007/11/stacked-recordset-multirecordset.html

> Mike
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to create a function using 'SQL' as language which could
>>>> return multiple rowsets, such as "SELECT * FROM TABLE1; SELECT * FROM
>>>> TABLE2;" where both results are returned in the output?  I know this can be
>>>> done in stored procedures in other RBDMS but can this be done in a function?
>>>
>>> you have a couple of approaches:
>>> *) declare refcursors inside the function and references them later in
>>> the transaction
>>> *) make temp tables
>>> *) arrays:
>>> create function two_sets(_foos out foo[], _bars out bar[]) returns record as
>>> $$
>>>  select array(select foo from foo), array(select bar from bar);
>>> $$ language sql;
>>>
>>> with s as (select * from two_sets()),
>>> foo as (select unnest(_foos) from s),
>>> bar as (select unnest(_bars) from s)
>>> select
>>>  (select count(*) from foo) as no_foos,
>>>  (select count(*) from bar) as no_bars;
>>
>> I should mention the query above only works in 8.4+.  the array
>> approach generally only works as of 8.3 and has limits (don't return
>> billion records).  Also, it's not good style (IMO) to name 'with'
>> expressions same as actual tables:
>>
>> with s as (select * from two_sets()),
>> f as (select unnest(_foos) from s),
>> b as (select unnest(_bars) from s)
>> select
>>  (select count(*) from f) as no_foos,
>>  (select count(*) from b) as no_bars;
>>
>> is cleaner.
>>
>> merlin
>>
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