Your in luck
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
Has a good tutorial on that.
Cheers
Ritchie
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 03:25, Benjamin Stewart wrote:
> Greetings,
> Sorry if this question has been posted before, but I searched the
> archives and documentation and was unable to find ther elevant
> information or any other developers with first hand experience at this.
>
> We are writting an application that is web based. We will beusing
> struts, java and all the wonderful things that that technology brings.
> We have decided to use Postgresql as our DB (v7.3.1). I noticed that one
> of the major changes that came with the release of 7.3 was the ability
> to return a record set from a function. I have not been able to find any
> specific documentation on how to achieve this. If there is any I would
> appreciate it if somebody could point it out.
>
> What i really want is to hear from somebody that has first hand
> experience and returning recordsets from postgresql (using pl/pgsql)
> functions. The other developer here has investigated and was only able
> to find a method that is a little bit tedious, and requires that actual
> call to the database from the java code (using jdbc) to define the
> fields that we are expecting etc.
>
> I have worked previously with sybase and we have the ability to create a
> stored procedure (different from a user defined function) that returns a
> record set that is passed back as and I can use as a standard RS and
> itterate throught it etc. I am also able to get meta data about field
> names, type etc from the RS.
>
> Would appreciate any help/suggestions/comments.
>
> Regards
> Ben Stewart
>
>
>
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