Re: Function Returning SETOF Problem

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Ron St-Pierre <rstpierre(at)syscor(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Function Returning SETOF Problem
Date: 2003-12-18 00:26:20
Message-ID: 20031217162230.A73086@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ron St-Pierre wrote:

> On a daily basis I place a lot of data into the empty table dailyList,
> and from that data update certain fields in currentList. I thought that
> using a function would be a good way to do this(?). However I get the
> following error when I run updateCurrentData():
> ERROR: set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set
> CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "updatecurrentcata" line 6 at return next
> I've googled and tried variations on the function, but without success.
> Can anyone help?

This probably means that you're calling it like:
select updateCurrentData();
and you'll need to instead call it with the function in the FROM clause,
something like:
select * from updateCurrentData();

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