Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)
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Msg-id 20071029012246.GC2006@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:18:04PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On 10/27/07, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > The only way I've done multisets is by creating functions that
> > return multiple refcursors, either in a row or as SETOF.  Is or
> > was there some other way?
> 
> <ahem>...arrays of composite type :-)

That's not a multiset either in the T-SQL sense or in the sense in
which the SQL standard defines MULTISET with COLLECT and FUSION.

Cheers,
David (who thinks those might be cool, too)
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