Re: Brio returning data through stored procedures.

Hmm are you doing something like:
IF something THEN
SELECT * FROM tblOne;
ELSE
SELECT * FROM tblTwo;

Not sure what a refcursor is, but it is mentioned in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html

Doug Thom wrote:
> Hello, David, Andreas,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. The challenge is that I need a ref cursor
> because it is some arbitrary amount of data coming back from the server
> in a cursor. Your suggestion shows a defined row but I do not know what
> the row looks like so I cannot define a type beforehand.
>
> However, your comments have me wondering if there is a different route I
> can take. Is there anything that is a 'generic row of data'? I see the
> type "record" and I'm going to give that a try.
>
> Thanks again for the prompt response and ideas!
>
> -Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas [mailto:maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Doug Thom
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Brio returning data through stored procedures.
>
> Hi Doug
>
> I dont know Brio either but keep in mind that tables and views are
> allready defined types which you could use here.
>
> So if your procedure just selects a few rows from a view or table but
> should return all collumns from the source you don't have to define a
> return type.
>
>
> David Gardner schrieb:
>> Never worked with Brio, but have you defined a data-type in pgsql that
>
>> your function would be returning? Something like:
>>
>> CREATE TYPE "myType" AS
>> ("name" text,
>> "start" timestamp without time zone,
>> "end" timestamp without time zone,
>> error text);
>> ALTER TYPE "myType" OWNER TO "me";
>>
>> then the function definition would start off like:
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "getData"()
>> RETURNS SETOF "myType" AS
>> .....
>
>
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