On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:44:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> >> Please find attached an example that allows people to return multiple
> >> named refcursors from a function. Big kudos to Kris Jurka for
> >> figuring this out and pasting to rafb :)
>
> > Oops. Joe Conway pointed out that this patch could be more succinct
> > and not create an essentially useless new type.
>
> I think the example is pretty confusing, or at least not compelling,
> since it's not clear to the reader why you'd go to all that trouble
> to return two scalars. The cursors ought to return rowsets.
> Maybe
>
> + OPEN $1 FOR SELECT * FROM table1;
> + RETURN NEXT $1;
> + OPEN $2 FOR SELECT * FROM table2;
> + RETURN NEXT $2;
>
> regards, tom lane
Good point. Next patch attached :)
Cheers,
D
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