Re: retun cursor

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Madhavi Daroor <madhavi(at)zoniac(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: retun cursor
Date: 2002-04-02 20:32:45
Message-ID: 20020402123049.N79913-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Madhavi Daroor wrote:

> Can anybody please let me know how I can return cursors using plpgsql in
> postgresql.
> I'm moving my database from oracle to postgresql. I have lot of reports in
> Oracle that have to be converted to postgreSql. But I'm returning cursors in
> all the functions. I could not find any such option in postgresql. So please
> let me know how I can return record sets/cursors in postgresql functions.

I believe you can return open cursors from plpgsql via the refcursor
type as of 7.2. I believe there's some documentation in the 7.2 plpgsql
documentation of how to open the cursors and such.

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