Re: Returning Recordsets from Stored-procs

Marc,

Marc Rohloff wrote:

> Is there anyway to return a recordset from a Stored Procedure in Postgres so that it can be used as a type of view or select?

In short:-
No, there isn't.

More detail:-
PostgreSQL does not have stored procedures as such, it has user defined functions. The difference being that a stored
procedure returns both a scalar value (the result), and optionally, one or more sets. (your recordset)

Functions on the other hand, only return a scalar value. This has been slightly extended in PostgreSQL so that a list of
values can be returned, but these have to be of the same type, and so are not a general replacement for a set.

Whilst this is an unfortunate position at the moment, it has been my experience that it does not cause insurmountable problems.
(Some short term headaches - yes. ;-)

> I know that you can do this in Interbase or MS-SQL.
>
> I have seen that you can return a complete record but that's not really the same thing.
>
> Marc Rohloff

Regards,
Grant

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