Yes, but I need to return n fields from one table and n fiels from another, and n fields from yet another
table, etc... and return this as some kind of record... How do I to this?
BTJ
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:13:39 +0200
Dany De Bontridder <dany@alchimerys.be> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:46, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > I need to make a funtion that take one parameter and then returns a
> > "record" with x number of fields, collected from x no. of tables, i.e. I
> > need to run several sql statemtents to collect all the needed values from x
> > no. of fields and insert it into a "record" and return the "record" at the
> > end...
> From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/plpgsql-declarations.html
>
> Example for function having return type set of record
>
> create function testfunc(int) returns record as '
> declare
> output record;
> begin
> for output in select * from table1 where col1<$1 loop
> return next output;
> end loop;
> return;
> end;
> ' language plpgsql
>
> executing through sql as:
>
> select * from testfunc(6) as (col1 int, col2 float, col3 char(20));
>
>
> Regards,
>
> D.
>
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