Re: AW: functions returning records

From: "Reinoud van Leeuwen" <reinoud(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: functions returning records
Date: 2001-06-27 08:56:43
Message-ID: 5148.194.109.0.126.993632203.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl
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>
>> For the result from foo() you must somewhere define attributes
>> (names).
>> Where? In CREATE FUNCTION statement? Possible must be:
>>
>> select name1, name2 from foo() where name1 > 10;
>
> Yes, optimal would imho also be if the foo() somehow had access to the
> where restriction, so it could only produce output, that the
> higher level is interested in, very cool. This would be extremely
> useful for me. Very hard to implement, or even find an appropriate
> interface for though.

You could easily implement it *in* the function foo IMHO. Since the
function does some black magic to create the result set to begin with, you
can change it to use parameters:

select name1, name2 from foo(10, NULL, NULL) where name1 > 10;

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