Re: Return cursor

Hi Alla,

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> I am porting our database from Oracle to PostgreSQL
>
> I know quite a lot about Oracle and pretty much nothing about
> PostgreSQL :-))
>
> I have a lot of stored procedures in Oracle that return result sets or
> cursor. All I have to do there is open a cursor and calling
> application can just fetch it

Hmm ... As I know ( fix mee ) Oracle's functions ( procedures ) never return
result sets but ref cursor.

>
> Is there anyway to do the same thing in PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL doesn't allow to return cursors from stored procedures.
If you want to deal with cursor, just open it in your application.

( See manuals for syntax )

>
> Please, help. So far I could not find anything
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for any help you can provide
>
>
>
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