Re: Opening view that uses a function - empty column

You'd have to give us a bit more information such as how you "open" it
using JDBC

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Brady Mathis <bmathis(at)r-hsoftware(dot)com> wrote:
> Two step inquiry:
>
>
> 1) I have created a function that will parse a value out of XML stored in the pg_largeobject table using xpath, like so:
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION extract_from_extended(text, bigint)
> RETURNS text AS
> $BODY$
> select translate( xpath(...) );
> $BODY$
> LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE
> COST 100;
>
>
> 2) I then created a view that calls this function as part of the query, like so:
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW encounter AS
> SELECT md.account_id, extract_from_extended('externalEncounterID'::text, md.id) AS external_id...
> FROM app.menu_data md, app.menu_structure ms
> WHERE...;
>
> When I open this view via JDBC, there is no data in the column that is filled by the function call.
>
> Any thoughts?
> TIA,
> BRady
>
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