An array is not quite the same as a result set. What the questioner wanted
(as I understand it) was a function that returned more than one row. That
doesn't work. If you manage to do it via arrays, more power to you.
On 2000-01-13, omid omoomi mentioned:
> Hello,
> Sure you can use arrays as returned results in your function.
>
> regards.
> Omid Omoomi
>
>
> >From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
> >To: Dale Anderson <danderso@crystalsugar.com>
> >CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PSQL Function() help....
> >Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:58:53 +0100
> >
> >On 2000-01-12, Dale Anderson mentioned:
> >
> > > Here is what I am trying to do. I an trying to create a function
> > > that is passed two numbers, get_people(2000,1). The first value is a
> > > year, and the second is a week. What I want the function to do, is to
> > > select all the names from a name table, and return a list of names
> > > that don't have an entry in the data table for the year, and week
> > > specified. Can this be done??
> >
> >No. Functions cannot return result sets. Certainly a deficiency, but
> >nobody is perfect.
> >
> >
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