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From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Return unknown resultset from a function
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In response to Return unknown resultset from a function  (Jan Meyland Andersen <jma@agile.dk>)
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Hello

2012/3/4 Jan Meyland Andersen <jma@agile.dk>:
> How do I return an unknown resultset from a function
>
> My main problem is that I do not know how many columns or the data type of
> the columns before runtime.
> It this possible at all?
>

no, or it is not possible simply. PostgreSQL is strongly typed.

I know only one workaround - using refcursor

http://okbob.blogspot.com/2008/08/using-cursors-for-generating-cross.html

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> I also tried to return the data as a text array but I also have trouble with
> that.
>
> Regards
>
> Jan
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