Re: PG, Crystal Reports, Stored Procedures and User Defined

7.3beta has much more powerful stored procedures. Basically, you can
put function names in the FROM clause of a SELECT. I recommend you try
that and then let us know exactly what is failing with Crystal Reports.
It may be just a syntax issue, or something more major.

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Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I posted this to the general list with no response so this is the next
> step . .
>
> I have a client that I have just changed over to PG 7.2.3 and despite
> the early teething problems things are going pretty well. There are,
> however, a few more difficult problems to do with reporting via Crystal
> Reports that could easily be solved by Stored Procedures but these
> don't exist in PG. The User Definable Functions, which would be able
> to do the job, are not visible to CR.
>
> There is a white paper from Crystal Decisions about how Oracle Stored
> Procedures are packaged to enable them to be used by CR.
>
> http://support.crystaldecisions.com/library/kbase/articles/c2010910.asp
>
> Maybe the issue really lies with psqlODBC?
>
> Does anyone know anything about this area? If you do, do you think it
> might be possible to also package PG functions to look like stored
> procedures to CR? If, so is anyone interested in doing the (paid)
> work? I am quite happy for the result to be GPLd.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
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