Re: PG, Crystal Reports, Stored Procedures and User Defined - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PG, Crystal Reports, Stored Procedures and User Defined
Date
Msg-id 200211020018.gA20Ixe17921@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to PG, Crystal Reports, Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions  (Philip Rhoades <pri@chu.com.au>)
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7.3beta has much more powerful stored procedures.  Basically, you can
put function names in the FROM clause of a SELECT.  I recommend you try
that and then let us know exactly what is failing with Crystal Reports.
It may be just a syntax issue, or something more major.

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Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> I posted this to the general list with no response so this is the next 
> step . .
> 
> I have a client that I have just changed over to PG 7.2.3 and despite 
> the early teething problems things are going pretty well.  There are, 
> however, a few more difficult problems to do with reporting via Crystal 
> Reports that could easily be solved by Stored Procedures but these 
> don't exist in PG.  The User Definable Functions, which would be able 
> to do the job, are not visible to CR.
> 
> There is a white paper from Crystal Decisions about how Oracle Stored 
> Procedures are packaged to enable them to be used by CR.
> 
> http://support.crystaldecisions.com/library/kbase/articles/c2010910.asp
> 
> Maybe the issue really lies with psqlODBC?
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this area?  If you do, do you think it 
> might be possible to also package PG functions to look like stored 
> procedures to CR?  If, so is anyone interested in doing the (paid) 
> work?  I am quite happy for the result to be GPLd.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
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