| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ezequiel Tolnay <mail(at)etolnay(dot)com(dot)ar> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Function returning any (tuple) type |
| Date: | 2005-07-15 21:21:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20050715212159.GA25864@svana.org |
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:51:04PM +1000, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me find a solution for this problem. I'm
> porting a database from MS SQL Server 2000 to PostgreSQL 8.0.1 (Windows).
<snip>
> The main problem I see is that the funcitions in PostgreSQL seem to be
> always bound to a particular result datatype. Is there a way to
> circumvent this?
Two solutions I can think of:
- Return SETOF RECORD and specify the type on the actual query from the
client
- Return a cursor reference.
Hope this helps,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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