Joins involving functions - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Jeff Boes
Subject Joins involving functions
Date
Msg-id 4436D343.5010802@endpoint.com
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I have a function that returns a row from a table, e.g.:

create table foo (a integer);

create function f_foo (integer) returns foo language 'sql'
as $foo$ select * from foo where a = $1 limit 1
$foo$

create table bar (b integer);

select * from bar
cross join f_foo(bar.b) as foo;

Unfortunately, this last statement returns an error:

NOTICE:  adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "bar"
ERROR:  function expression in FROM may not refer to other relations of
same query level

Is there a method for joining function calls to tables? The only other
approach I can think of is to write another function that returns "setof".

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