Re: Newbie: help with FUNCTION

From: elein(at)varlena(dot)com (elein)
To: Charl Gerber <charlgerber(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Newbie: help with FUNCTION
Date: 2005-02-26 02:06:25
Message-ID: 20050226020625.GG10213@varlena.com
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Alternatives to returning a set of rows is to return
a set of integers, one per row selected. Same example
as Huxton's without the row type.

Also you could return an array of integers.

--elein

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:00:46PM +0000, Charl Gerber wrote:
> I'm trying to create a function that takes 1
> paramater (eg an integer) as input, then does 5
> database updates or deletes in 5 different SQL
> statements and returns 5 integers (in one resultset)
> indicating how many rows were affected by the various
> updates/deletes.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> How can I specify the names of the 5 output colums?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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