Re: Brio returning data through stored procedures.

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
> .....