| From: | Peter Fein <pfein(at)pobox(dot)com> | 
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Postgresql-General list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Return SETOF or array from pl/python | 
| Date: | 2005-07-15 22:21:23 | 
| Message-ID: | 42D836E3.50503@pobox.com | 
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> You would actually have to have a set. What I believe you are trying to
> do is transform a list to a result set. I don't think you can do that
> without some additional programming within the function.
> 
> Somebody may know of a better way but what I would think would happen is
> this:
> 
> Break up list, insert each value of list into a temp table as a row,
> return set of temp table.
Is there a way to represent a set of constant rows in SQL, aside from
creating a temp table & populating it?  I've had need of this before -
IIRC, something was mentioned about the SQL VALUES construct being
unimplemented.
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Peter Fein                 pfein(at)pobox(dot)com                 773-575-0694
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