Re:

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:29, Adam Witney wrote:
> On 22/8/05 10:19 am, "Nigel Horne" <njh(at)bandsman(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Adam Witney <awitney(at)sgul(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> >>> Ah you want to return a record I suppose?
> >>
> >>> CREATE TABLE test (id int, name text);
> >>> INSERT INTO test VALUES(1, 'me');
> >>> INSERT INTO test VALUES(2, 'you');
> >>
> >>> CREATE FUNCTION test_func() RETURNS SETOF record AS '
> >>> SELECT id, name FROM test;
> >>> ' LANGUAGE SQL;
> >>
> >> Or better, "RETURNS SETOF test", so you don't have to describe the
> >> output record type every time you call it.
> >
> > Seeing as there will only ever be one row in this table, do I need the
> > SETOF field?
>
> Try it and see.... I think you don't need it for a single row.

Another problem comes to mind, how can I make this multi-thread
safe? Since the return values from the function are stored in the
database I need to ensure that simultaneous calls to the function are
stored independently in the temporary table.

> adam

-Nigel