Re: Possible move away from PG

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Jason Tesser <jtesser(at)nbbc(dot)edu>
Cc: Pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Possible move away from PG
Date: 2005-06-30 13:04:38
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.56.0506300804020.2874@leary.csoft.net
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Jason Tesser wrote:

> 1. Our dev plan involves alot of stored procedures to be used and we
> have found the way this is done in PG to be painful. (ie. To return
> multiple record from different tables you have to define a type. This
> is a pain to maintain because if you ever have to change what it returns
> it cannot be dropped because of dependencies etc.. In some other
> databases you can simpley write a stored proc to return whatever the
> query inside returns and this is handled dynamically)

Have you considered returing refcursors instead of setof some type.

Kris Jurka

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