<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">I am new to Postgresql and am trying to write a function which will do a search and return the first page of
resultsalong with the total number of matches. How can I make my function return a cursor AND a scalar – can I do the
scalaras an OUT param and then make the function explicitly RETURN a refcursor?</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
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12.0pt">Surajit</span></font></div><table><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff"><font
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